characters in html pages do not display correctly

[Graham Campbell]

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 21:55, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 17:00, Dave Cross wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 04:37:29PM -0500, olga at urbantimes.net wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I've noticed that some characters in the htm pages (created in
> > > Dreamweaver) do not display correctly. For example, in Dreamweaver on a
> > > workstation, I have quotation marks, but when the page is ftped to the
> > > server running Apache 2, they become question marks. Some European
> > > characters get garbled as well.
> > > 
> > > Can someone tell me please what could be the reason for that.
> > 
> > Almost certainly those characters are outside of the standard ASCII
> > range and your HTML doesn't define which character set they are taken
> > from.
> > 
> > Try defining the character set in your HTML page. ISO-8859-1 would be
> > a good first guess.
> > 
> > Dave...
> > 
> 
> Are you saying that you believe the quotation mark is outside the ascii
> range?
> 
> Per my ascii table it is dec 34, oct 42, hex 22
> > -- 
> >   New .sigs
> >   Running in please parse
> > 

I suggest using "od -bc" on the actual html page to see what character
is actually there. Some editors like to change quote marks!
-- 
Graham Campbell <gc1111 at optonline.net>