Note that the different versions of the "pipe" symbol although distinct when I composed the message, have been displayed below as the same symbol. The pipe symbol causing the problem has a break in the vertical line. Apologies if that has caused any confusion!
---Sherlock, Ric wrote: > When I display pages like this one: > http://www.jsoftware.com/help/primer/word_formation.htm > > in either Firefox 3.0 or IE7 it tries to display the page > using UTF8 and the characters used as the vertical lines for > boxes do not display correctly. > > Interestingly opening the local version of such a page: > file:///C:/Program%20Files/j602/help/primer/word_formation.htm > > uses the ISO-8859-1 encoding and displays fine. > > The issue seems to be the use of the | character rather than > | to display the vertical lines. I notice that Learning J and > the dictionary use | to represent vertical lines and there is > no problem. E.g. > http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/samp05.htm > > Assuming that this browser behaviour is not unique to me two > possible solutions might be: > > 0) Replace the use of | with | to represent vertical lines on > all web pages. > 1) Add the following declaration to the <head> of each page: > <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" > http-equiv="Content-Type"/> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
