rm ([personal profile] rm) wrote2009-03-31 12:21 pm
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HTML question

- 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?
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[identity profile] filkerdave.livejournal.com 2009-03-31 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Are they in the page source?
ext_3685: Stylized electric-blue teapot, with blue text caption "Brewster North" (Default)

[identity profile] brewsternorth.livejournal.com 2009-03-31 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Apparently FF and Safari use two different character sets as their defaults: Firefox uses Western (ISO-8859-1), and Safari (and probably others) use Western (ISO Latin 1). I don't know if ISO-8859-1 is more restrictive than Latin 1, but it might explain the discrepancy in how accents and other characters are rendered.

[identity profile] browneyedgirl65.livejournal.com 2009-03-31 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Mac has all kinds of issues with different font sets. Without knowing more, it's hard to say, but is this on a non-English page? With more than standard ASCII?

[identity profile] mecurtin.livejournal.com 2009-03-31 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
In case it's not clear from what other people have said:

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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