On Tuesday 23 October 2001 21:44, you wrote: > While viewing web pages in Mozilla 0.9.4, I notice that all of the > apostrophes get replaced with a y with two dots over the top. Do any > of you guys know how I get rid of this? Not a big deal, but kind of > annoying. TIA, > Fred
Sounds like the web pages you are viewing have been created with M$ s/ware. For some reason (actually I think it's to do with 'smart-(read dumb)-quotes' that they produce) M$ decided they wouldn't emit true apostrophes, but instead replace them with different characters that are not part of the 7-bit ASCII set. MSIE can interpret them correctly, but in all other browsers they get displayed as either the 8-bit ASCII character that the value actually represents, as a question mark (which is how Netscrape does it in version 4, IIRC), or get ignored completely (which is what Opera seems to do for me). A good explanation of this stuff can be found at John Walker's Demoroniser page (http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/), where he also gives a Perl program that corrects these problems (and a whole raft of others that M$ apps introduce in their generated HTML). Unfortunately, the Demoroniser is really designed to be run on web-pages that you design before publishing them - I've no idea if it would be possible to pipe incoming pages through it before they get served up to your browser, although I imagine you could do it through a proxy, maybe? HTH S> -- <<< Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines >>> Remove the fruit to obtain reply address: spencer at lasermount banana dot uklinux dot net 12:05am up 1 day, 10:07, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00 Registered Linux User #232457
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