On May 31, 8:48 pm, daze <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 31, 9:41 am, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Is it a problem if some articles were already cleaned by doing a > > > search and replace, e.g. swapping all ’ for its corresponding proper > > > symbol? > > > Depends. if you have replaced with pure ascii then it's not a problem. > > if not (ie for a given column and table you have a mix of encodings) > > then you will have made things worse. > > Oh... thank you for answering me! Basically, some people ran search- > and-replaces for these: > > "| replaced with : > – replaced with - > ’ replaced with ' > “ replaced with " > †replaced with " > > I apologize for my lack of expertise, but have things been replaced > "with pure ascii"? (What exactly is that...?)
Those are pure ascii characters (ie can be represented by a 7 bit integer. Latin1, UTF8, etc. all represent these characters in the same way so you shouldn't get a problem > > One other thing: > Does the encoding or interpretation of encoding vary from browser to > browser? See, I went to school and checked out the site - only to > find this odd symbol located after double-quotes... it looked like two > squares on top of each other... > Yet, at home, or outside of school, I do not see this symbol anywhere. > Why might this be? > as walter says, that sounds the missing glyph character, ie "you've asked me to display a character that I can't display" Fred > (Thank you again!) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
