Browser substitutes some characters with question mark

[masonf]

I have a problem I have been trying to figure out for a while. I am using Visual Interdev for web development and I noticed that if I put a copyright sign on a page and preview it, it looks fine. But if I preview the same page in a browser, it replaces the copyright sign with a question mark, like it doesn't know how to render the character. So I figured I'd just not include it and just say "Copyright 2000".

However, I saw the same problem on another page; this time it replaced each apostrophe/single quote with a question mark. I can't find anything in the MSDN Library or Microsoft's Support Site about this. It is a pain because in regular text, using an apostrophe for possesives (such as "Jim's car&quot doesn't work (it instead says "Jim?s car&quot. I am using the font "Arial, sans-serif" which I think would be available on all platforms. However, what seems strange to me is that the preview pane in InterDev doesn't do it but IE 6 does.

InterDev has been adding the charset attribute to use Unicode in a meta tag. Could this be the problem?

 

[masonf]

Additionally, I noticed that some of the pages I created in InterDev used

charset=iso-8859-1

instead of

charset=unicode

What determines this and can I control which one it uses?

 

[cian]

Hi Masonf,

Have you tried using Character entity references or Ascii character codes?

If you need a reference list I have one.


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