On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:05 AM, James Jeffery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Never had a problem with character encodings on web pages, but since I > reinstalled the OS on my iMac I have had an issue. > > Some of my characters, especially when using ' seem to mess up. This is the > page, content and layout are simple as it's for a uni assignment: > http://mi-linux.wlv.ac.uk/~0802390/overview.html > > Check out the overview.html page, and notice the issues. There is one > noticeable in the overview page "‘SOAP’"
Your HTTP header declares the encoding to be ISO-8859-1 while the HTML (and presumably your text editor) think it is UTF-8. The HTTP header trumps all other sources of encoding information. If you can't change or silence this header on your server, you'll need to save your pages as ISO-8859-1. You might find this article about encoding sources interesting: http://NikitaTheSpider.com/articles/EncodingDivination.html -- Philip http://NikitaTheSpider.com/ Whole-site HTML validation, link checking and more ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
