Kaixo!
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 03:57:58PM -0700, Larry Sword wrote:
> a problem with the display of web pages: That is for some reason
> the fonts display a ? rather that the ' character. i.e. Displays don?t and
> not the correct don't.
The reason why it doesn't display a "'" is because it is *NOT* a "'".
Frontpage is known to create pages where the apostrophe (unicode 0x0027)
is replaced with right single quotation mark (unicode 0x2019).
Now, if the page is in unicode there shouldn't be a problem I think (but it
may be a problem nonethless; Netscape is known to have a very bad unicode
support (version 6 improves it)).
But the problem is that 0x2019 is encoded in Windows encoding cp1252
at position 0x92. And pages are writtent using that encoding.
If the encoding is announced as "charset=windows-1252" then again no problem;
but often they aren't ! they are annonced as iso-8859-1 and in iso-8859-1
it doesnt exist any char at all on position 0x92; so the mark for an
unknown sign is used: '?'.
The same way, if you go to a japanese page that doesn't annonce itself
with the proper charset= value you will see gibbersih; if the author of the
page properly provided a charset= header; then Netscape will nicely display
in japanese, with japanese fonts.
> Using mozilla fonts.
Fonts don't change anything; the problem lies on the page.
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