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[Michael Knepher]

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 21:56 +0100, norman wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 15:42 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 October 2007, norman wrote:
> > > > That's the smart-a$$  answer but in short, we need more information.
> > > >  Where do you see these small squares and what were you doing when they
> > > > appeared?
> > >
> > > OK, here is an example. It is part of a description of the properties of
> > > a CD/DVD Rom drive:-
> > >
> > > 48x (CD) / 20x (DVD±R) / 10x (DVD±R DL)
> > >
> > > Oddly enough, the squares do not appear when the line with them in is
> > > transferred by cut and paste, instead there is a comma in their place. I
> > > wonder why there are those squiggly lines over the letter A?
> > 
> > But *where* are you seeing them??    In a browser?   What Browser?   What URL 
> > did you go to....?    Or is it some other program??
> 
> Sorry, this is in Firefox looking at a descriptions of items in
>  
> http://www.ebuyer.com/
> 

I'd guess that there's a discrepancy between the character set that the
html is telling the browser to use (UTF-8, according to the html source)
and the character set of the database that the text is being pulled from
when the page is called. Best to blame it on the webmaster. 


> Norman
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