Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
Rick Merrill wrote:
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
Rick Merrill wrote:
The following html is supposed to display
a chevron followed by the headline.

>Plymouth pays high price

Instead, it displays a box containing small characters "276f"

What character encoding or what causes this?

<a style=3D"font-size: 13px;" href=3D"http://links5=
.boston.com/ihvgbvtpmhhwzgdgwbckvwzkptwdztpqqcfzzcycgndn_frysjjbhs.ht=
ml">Plymouth pays high price for foreign wars</a>

If you are the one writing this HTML, there is no ">" shown in your
sample after the
<a ...> tag of the anchor element. IOW, you want:

<a style=3D"font-size: 13px;" href=3D"http://links5=
.boston.com/ihvgbvtpmhhwzgdgwbckvwzkptwdztpqqcfzzcycgndn_frysjjbhs.ht=
ml">&gt; Plymouth pays high price for foreign wars</a>

See the &gt; between the closing greater-than and the word Plymouth?
Conversely a
&lt; is used if you want to display a less-than "<" in HTML. [1]

Check the validity of your HTML here:
http://validator.w3.org/
and for your CSS here:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

If this is not some HTML that you wrote, please provide a URL to the
page in question.

[1. Yes, I know that greater-thans normally do not need to be
encoded... ]


Right. It is Not my code. It is from an email,
and I did not know how to put a URL to that, nor
did I want to post the whole deal in this group.

Ah, an email. That explains the "3D" which I believe is a line break in an HTML
email, and not related to your question.

but SM2.4.2 under Win 7 shows it "correctly"
while SM2.4.2 under Win XP shows it 'weird'.

I have 2.4.1 (Ubuntu Linux).

The 'style=3D' looked pretty strange to me.

I have made copy of the HTML available here:
http://batco.tv/AccessBolton_files/docs/The%20Boston%20Globe%27s%20Daily%20Headlines.html


or here:
http://tinyurl.com/3qrawe7

I see the styled ">" in SeaMonkey browser, Firefox, and Opera. It has nothing 
to do
with the actual anchor element (the <a ...>) but is in the HTML just *before* 
the link.

<div> &#10095;

That character entity symbol is known as the:

HEAVY RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET ORNAMENT

and is a character in one of the symbol fonts, such as Wingdings, Dingbats, or 
such.
Search the source of your email for that entity code. It can also be displayed 
using:
&#U+2771;

Now that we have that solved, I can't say for sure how it would display in an 
*email*
... I do my best to read all email in Plain Text. :-)



My typo: SM2.4.1  (!)

Here is what you see ( and what it SHOULD look like)
and what I see under Win 7:

http://tinyurl.com/3uc3qnm


Here is what I see on MY Win xp:

http://tinyurl.com/4yupybf


So, why does one system not show the "HRPABO"?
i'M STILL thinking there is an SM setting there.




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