[Webmaster_forum] Weird Characters In News Feed

[Jay Stevens]

Amazing what some creative advice will do. After Lee's response concerning Western European encoding, I checked my browser's encoding setting [Page-Encoding] and found that my encoding setting was set to Western European (Windows). That's a normal setting. But when I changed the encoding to Unicode, the strange characters resolved to an "em-dash." Apparently the articles that presented the strange character sets were written with Unicode encoding. Perhaps the other browsers mentioned default to Unicode.

Problem solved.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lee Chasse 
  To: webmaster_forum at usps.org 
  Cc: Jay Stevens 
  Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 8:11 AM
  Subject: Weird Characters In News Feed


  Interesting. I checked the page with all the Browsers I use and only 2 show the weird characters Jay speaks of:

  1. IE 7.0.5730.11 - Shows bad characters
  2. Safari 3.0.1 - No Problem
  3. Opera 9.23 - No Problem
  4. Mozzilla 2.0.0.6 - No Problem
  5. Netscape 8.1.3 - No Problem
  6. Avant Browser 11.5 - Shows bad characters

  It seems IE 7 and Avant have some internal use of character recognition right now that caused that in viewing the characters in html format.

  This could be a deviation from the normal Western European type set commonly used.

  Fraternally

  Lee



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