What was the encoding set to previously in IE?
This technique of double spacing after periods is a holdover from typewriter days. With typewriters, each character on the line takes the same space. A W would occupy the exact same space as an i, even though the W is at least four times the width. With this setup, you needed a double space at the end of a sentence because there was almost the equivalent of a single space between some letters.
Single character spacing after periods has always been the standard in the professional typesetting world. All computer type, with the exception of a few specifically "monospaced" fonts, are proportional, or use only the amount of space required for each letter. Single spacing after a sentence is the correct way to put in the pause. Using a double space on proportional type is an error, and also reduces readability.
Peter Kaulback
Support-OrpheusComputing.com wrote:
Ok, I found out what was causing this odd problem below. I figured it may have something to do with proper encoding. I changed the encoding (in IE) under "view" to "Western Windows" and the ? marks went away.
-Clint
----- Original Message ----- From: "Support-OrpheusComputing.com"
FWIW, I found a way to fix this on my end, but it still begs the question why am I only seeing it. I'm not going to fix all the ? marks until a few others check it and see if they see the question marks. What I did to get rid of one of them is to just type the area over again. -Clint
----- Original Message ----- From: "Support-OrpheusComputing.com"
Ok thanks Ben.
I use the tag after every period, but for some reason not all of them show up in the HTML code, only a few of them show up when you "view source". They will all only show up when I got to edit the pages via my control panel and I see the raw code from there.
I checked other pages at my sites and this is the ONLY page that has these question marks! The one exception was where I used the trademark symbol (that tiny "TM" symbol"), I was now showing ? there for it as well! I never used the ™ tag since that never worked on Netscape. I just "copied" the actual TM symbol from elsewhere and "pasted" it in my HTML code and that worked for years on ALL browsers! So that brings up another question as to why that was showing as a question mark instead of the trademark symbol as it has for years. I just changed all of these to the ™ tag, and I see the symbol OK now, but the symbol probably isn't going to show in Netscape or FF or Opera maybe. Can you check that please? See the 2nd URL below and do a cont-F for "athlon", it's the second instance of it. (I don't know if you can see it, but this brings up yet another strange thing on that particular page. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th paragraphs as I see them all have a larger space above the last sentence in each regardless of screen resolution!) -Clint
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I've got sp2. No question marks. None in Firefox or Opera either. It doesn't seem to happen when you have   in your code. Otherwise it looks like you double space after periods.
Why it's happening only to you? I have absolutely no idea.
Ben Moore
-----Original Message----- Support-OrpheusComputing.com
Hi all. This is a strange one. I'm seeing ? marks on this page after some of the periods. http://orpheuscomputing.com/popups/linking_terms.html . I asked my hosts about it thinking it was a Cpanel issue or some other server issue, they just replied back and they said they don't see the question marks!! So I made a screen shot so they could see them, please take a look. http://orpheuscomputing.com/tests/question_marks.gif . I asked which browser they were using but I won't know that until they reply back. I'm using IE and SP2. Note the ? marks I circled in orange. They're only in the 1st and 2nd paragraphs for some reason. Check the HTML code and you'll see there is NO question marks or anything that could cause them, yet they are showing up on the webpage for me! It was not like this before, but I don't know when it started happening, I just now noticed it.
Can someone on XP SP2 or SP1 please check the WEBPAGE LINK, and see if you see any of the question marks I show in the screen shot? Does anyone know what could be causing it? Thanks, -Clint
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