Re: Question marks instead of accents on web

On Sat, 31 May 2008 12:33:40 -0400, bloomite wrote
(in article
<bloomite-221A65.12334031052008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

In article <jollyroger-B72AC7.11280531052008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

Okay, any suggestions on how to fix this? I forgot to emphasize that I
didn't have this problem for the longest time, I could read websites
with all the tildes and accent marks, etc for at least a year.

Then I just started getting the question marks.

any idea on what changed on my Mac or what I need to change back?

The web page itself is broken. It has three <meta> tags for the
character set used. Two of those tags in the body itself which should
never be the case. It also has the unicode BOM tag in the body. AND it
has many, many coding errors. So it's simply confusing Safari and
Firefox (and Opera and even IE 7 on windows).

What you need to do in safari is change the page's encoding manually.

From the View menu, the last item is 'Text encoding' and it's usually
set to automatic.

Select the second item instead. The Western (ISO latin 1), that should
fix the characters on screen. However it didn't seem to fix the field in
the form. mañana still gave an error; I couldn't get it to work in any
browser on any platform.

If you NEED to use that page then you should see if you can contact
whoever is responsible for it and have them fix it. Although the extent
of the errors in the page would mean a complete rework behind the code
generating it. So they may not be inclined to do it.

My suggestion is to find an alternative.

.

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