On May 31, 9:41 am, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is it a problem if some articles were already cleaned by doing a > > search and replace, e.g. swapping all ’ for its corresponding proper > > symbol? > > Depends. if you have replaced with pure ascii then it's not a problem. > if not (ie for a given column and table you have a mix of encodings) > then you will have made things worse.
Oh... thank you for answering me! Basically, some people ran search- and-replaces for these: "| replaced with : – replaced with - ’ replaced with ' “ replaced with " †replaced with " I apologize for my lack of expertise, but have things been replaced "with pure ascii"? (What exactly is that...?) One other thing: Does the encoding or interpretation of encoding vary from browser to browser? See, I went to school and checked out the site - only to find this odd symbol located after double-quotes... it looked like two squares on top of each other... Yet, at home, or outside of school, I do not see this symbol anywhere. Why might this be? (Thank you again!) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.