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Weird characters at my blogpost

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SuccessEnroute



Joined: 05 Jul 2007
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Location: Singapore

PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:41 pm    Post subject: Weird characters at my blogpost Reply with quote

’t or Â

I will have the above characters mixed in my blogposts if i left my encoding (right click) at the default Western European(windows) or just Western European but if i changed to Unicode(UTF-Cool, the blogpost will go back to normal and the above characters will be gone.

This only happen recently, does anyone knows what happened and how to solve it?

my blog at [URL deleted - Moderator]
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

anybody know why? This also happen at my workplace pc too.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you using this metatag on your site:

Code:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">


I think it could be that people are using MS word to submit stuff to your blog and then your blog has the wrong charset used in the metatags making your special characters that word uses, not reconized by the charset that your site is using.

Unfortunately I don't think by changing the charset from whatever you have to:

Code:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">


will change the errors that you currently have, but it most probably will prevent more of that code happening. The best thing to do is to try submitting something from word that uses these “ ” (commas) from word and then see what happens. If the error happens, then try it again, but with using the:


Code:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">


code rather than the one that you currently use.
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