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Re: 3 things



On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 02:36:20AM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote:

> > 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

.. employee who has to use these tools, or just because you can't use
anything else, run their output through demoroniser before publishing
-- this script will remove this bullshit out of your HTML and make it
look as clean as if Microsoft wasn't a party in its creation at all.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/


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