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Re: 3 things



> 2. A question: My netscape shows instead of ' or " - it shows question
> marks (?) - any idea how to fix it?

These signs are neither ' nor "; If you don't believe, check their
ASCII code. These are special characters which in some character sets
(specifically - Microsoft's character sets) have the same glyphs as
' and ", but have different ASCII codes (with the 8th bit turned on).
Some HTML builders (specifically - Microsoft's) generate them. The
real solution is to avoid such HTML tools. But if you are only a poor
surfer and want to access other sites, the only thing you can do is
to use a font in which these characters have the same glyph as ' and
", and to use a code set which these characters are defined as legal,
printable, etc. Unfortunately, I never did it, although I believe
that even if there is not such a code set, it is only a work for an
hour or so.

I think that there was an article about it at Slashdot a few months
ago. Try to search Slashdot.

-- 
Eli Marmor

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