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Weird Symbols
Topic Started: Apr 9 2008, 03:43 AM (112 Views)
Trotsky
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Why do I see this goofy pile of symbols instead of an apostrophe on some websites? THe word should be Don't and yet I see Don’t

or Careerbuilder's comes out as Careerbuilder’s

It's not a once in a lifetime thing, I see it often!

Any guesses?
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ocali
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Could it be something translated from another language, and it shows up thusly?
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Kahu
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I'm only guessing.......

My guess is that it's caused by different national keyboards and then redisplayed. For instance I get some of that occurring when I visit UK sites. Some Old English texts display like that... ǽ þ £
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Here I am with my 2cents worth.
What does it mean in IE when you click on view, then encoding? Mine seems to be set at Western European (ISO).....whatever this means. I noticed I could change it to many different languages?....like Turkish or Japanese.
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Trotsky
Apr 9 2008, 02:43 AM
Why do I see this goofy pile of symbols instead of an apostrophe on some websites? THe word should be Don't and yet I see Don’t

or Careerbuilder's comes out as Careerbuilder’s

It's not a once in a lifetime thing, I see it often!

Any guesses?


It may be unicode - [old English] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Nam...nicode)_(draft)

also can be a form of copywrite.

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