HTML question
Mar. 31st, 2009 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
- Freaky control characters showing up in Firefox on Macs.
- They show up on nothing else -- not in Safari, not on PCs.
What the hell should I be looking for that will make this stop?
- They show up on nothing else -- not in Safari, not on PCs.
What the hell should I be looking for that will make this stop?
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Date: 2009-03-31 04:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-31 04:26 pm (UTC)ampersands. ampersands as regular text. could they be triggering it?
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Date: 2009-03-31 04:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-31 04:30 pm (UTC)I've never had to deal with that before. How do I do code for just plain old ampersand?
I bet that will fix a chunk of 'em.
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Date: 2009-03-31 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-31 04:34 pm (UTC)I know you just made a clever joke.
But I do not understand it.
If I want the screen to display: &
Do I just type a: &
Or do I type something else?
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Date: 2009-03-31 04:49 pm (UTC)< for <
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Date: 2009-03-31 04:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-31 04:41 pm (UTC)If you ever want me to test things in FF, links, and/or lynx on Linux, I'd be happy to, btw.
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Date: 2009-03-31 04:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-31 04:27 pm (UTC)Oi.
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Date: 2009-03-31 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-31 04:51 pm (UTC)However, the default character set on English-language Windows systems is Windows-1252, which is almost like Latin-1 except that in some places where Latin-1 has control characters, Windows-1252 has curly quotes (“”), long dashes, and other visible characters. The Web is so full of pages that represent themselves as Latin-1 (or even ASCII) and are actually coded in Windows-1252 that some browsers have just thrown in the towel and treat all these pages as Windows-1252. grumble grumble grumble Microsoft hegemony grumble grumble.
(which of course may have nothing to do with the OP's problem.)
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Date: 2009-03-31 04:54 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-03-31 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-31 04:31 pm (UTC)do I write out "ampersand-quot-semicolon" or do I write out &";
am unclear.
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Date: 2009-03-31 04:34 pm (UTC)Use this:
& to print out an ampersand character
" to print out a properly escaped quotation character
These are called html entities, and there's a list of them here: http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/ plus other places if you google
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Date: 2009-03-31 04:35 pm (UTC)I feel embarrassed that I've never needed to know this before.
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Date: 2009-03-31 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-31 08:01 pm (UTC)(Normal procedure:search for non-English word phrase or character online, then cut and paste. Clumsy, but me.)
Techno-peasantly yours.
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Date: 2009-03-31 08:24 pm (UTC)For email, I'm familiar enough with the alt-keypad method and I know most of the characters I need by heart :)
further confusion
Date: 2009-03-31 04:36 pm (UTC)" (if you are seeing this in plain text) is what to type.
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Date: 2009-03-31 04:54 pm (UTC)Word:
Tools | Autocorrect Options | Auto-format as you type (tab)
Uncheck: Replace as you type "Straight quotes" with "smart quotes"
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Date: 2009-03-31 04:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-31 04:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-31 04:40 pm (UTC)Use this table or something like it. Notorious offenders: ampersand, smart quotes (right and left "angled" quote marks), accented letters, everything after ASCII 122.
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Date: 2009-03-31 05:02 pm (UTC)(Of course if the person reading your page doesn't have a font with that character on his or her computer then it will show up as a funny block instead of a scissors--but memory and disk space are so cheap these days that most operating systems come with fonts that cover the majority of the Unicode space.)