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Problem with my submission

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I just saw the story I posted, Experiments II, and all the quotation marks and apostrophes have been replaced with missing symbol symbols.

What gives? It sort of mars the whole story . . .
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Re: Problem with my submission

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You are apparently viewing in character set "unicode UTF 8". Switch to "Western Windows 1252" or "ISO 8859-1" and you won't have this problem.

Whatever character set you used also made the RSS Feed Generator angry, too...

So try the switch.
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Excllent!

How? lol

I use Firefox . . . where do I go to change said settings . . .?

Thanx, Mr. Paolo

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NicholasBeauchamps (imported) wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2009 6:52 pm Excllent!

How? lol

I use Firefox . . . where do I go to change said settings . . .?

View->Encoding->

Or you can change the preferred order of encodings in

about:config, but firefox changed a bit since I last was there... so I'm not sure, which one of settings to change.
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Wow. Fhunter. Yur hawt! lol

Eh, so I changed the encoding. Restarted Firefox - still see the little missing symbol symbols. Ah well. I guess I don't have to read my own stories that much. I can live with it, I guess.

Thanx anyways!

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Go into your Firefox options, under TOOLS.

You can set the default encoding there.
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Wow. Fhunter. Yur hawt! lol

thanks. (haven't found blushing smilie).
NicholasBeauchamps (imported) wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:51 am Eh, so I changed the encoding. Restarted Firefox - still see the little missing symbol symbols.
It's for one page, before reload (this setting is not saved after restart). Used it a lot - there is a whole zoo of russian encodings on the web (I know 3 actively used, not counting unicode), and lots of improperly configured servers.

Paolo mentioned global solution.
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I just noticed that while my Firefox default is Western Windows 1252 in my TOOLS-OPTIONS settings, it does change depending on the pages I hit. I have found, however, that 1252 will almost always get rid of the oddball characters.
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