Re: Question marks instead of accents on web



In article
<bloomite-7B6B05.12053131052008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
bloomite <bloomite@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm running OS 10.5.2 on a dual G5 2 gigahertz and I look up the
meanings of Spanish words a lot on the Internet, using Firefox and
Safari.

Starting a few months ago i now get question marks in place of letters
that have an accent mark, or a tilde or umlaut, when I view websites like
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dict_en_es/

Viewing the source of that web page reveals that the ? character after
"Ingl" is a Unicode character #65533 (FFDD) "Replacement Character":

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters>

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