http://www.slashdot.org/articles/99/02/06/0220242.shtml
Why Netscape shows ? instead of '
Posted by sengan on Saturday February 06, @02:20AM
from the learning-from-our-mistakes dept.
RandySC writes " Demoronizer is a Perl program which corrects numerous
errors and incompatibilities in HTML generated by, or edited with,
Microsoft applications. The demoroniser keeps you from looking dumber than
a bag of dirt when your Web page is viewed by a user on a non-Microsoft
platform. A little detective work revealed that, as is usually the case
when you encounter something shoddy in the vicinity of a computer,
Microsoft incompetence and gratuitous incompatibility were to blame.
Western language HTML documents are written in the ISO 8859-1 Latin-1
character set, with a specified set of escapes for special characters.
Blithely ignoring this prescription, as usual, Microsoft use their own
"extension" to Latin-1, in which a variety of characters which do not
appear in Latin-1 are inserted in the range 0x82 through 0x95--this having
the merit of being incompatible with both Latin-1 and Unicode, which
reserve this region for additional control characters. "
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