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Old December 9th, 2004, 03:21 PM
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Wierd symbols like £1m or Intel’s...
Hello all,

I got these wierd symbols appearing on the web, but not sure what they are?

Sample 1:
such as:
£
in the sentence:
"Now, £1m is a lot of wonga for a paper plane, but that's nothing compared to the £7m bidding.."

Sample 2:
such as:
’

in the sentence:
"...say that AMD CPU line is somewhat fuller than that of Intel’s. "

or

"...efficient than the rival’s. "

or

"... and extending new platforms’ functionality."

my guess its a single quote, but what is that symbol



Sample 3:
such as:
®
in the sentence
"...required to secure a piece of aviation history. ®"


Somebody help me, I dont know what these symbols are, or what standard they belong to??? Does anyone rechonize these symbols, and explain what convention is being used???

Please help

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Old December 9th, 2004, 06:05 PM
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I'm guessing the page has the wrong character set specified.
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Well you might be right, but im guessing this was done purposly! I wonder if there is a mysql or php function that changes special characters into those wierd characters. Sort of like add_slashes() function in php.

This project is a php generated website working with mysql database. Now, I am incharge of re-designing this site without using the old php code, but using the old databases !!! Cant even look at the source due to complications. Well to make a long story short, I've gotten all to work except i dont know what those symbols are!

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It's unicode UTF-8.
Change the encoding on your browser and you'll see the symbols fine.
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Thanks for the reply BonRogue, ill try your suggestion...

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BonRogue,
I changed the encoding, but it did not work.

Heres what i did in Thunderbird:
Tools > Options... > General (Tab) > Languages (Button) > changed Default Character Encoding to Unicode UTF-8

and then refreshed the page, and nothing!!

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You need to set this in your web page too:
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

- even better if you can set it before the page has reached the browser (easy if you user server side technologies).
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BAM!

got it to work, thanks guys....It was the same thing BonRouge was saying but jabba_29's quick example helped me to understand... Thanks guys.

Now heres my question...whats the purpose, or advantage of doing this??? What purpose does having charset UTF-8 have, if any???

I dont really understand!!!

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Much thanks to jabba_29 and BonRouge for thier help.

For those wondering what correctly solved my problem, here's the solution:

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />


just adding that before the header fixed the problem

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