Firefox problem, or something else?


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I began noticing this showing up on more and more websites, not sure if it is firefox related or something wrong with my fonts. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks ;)

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ah changing the character encoding worked like a charm, it was on western, switched it to english and now the symbols are coming up as the copyright symbol, thanks a bunch

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Usually a page will tell the browser what character encoding to use. e.g. This pages header says:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>

<title>Firefox problem, or something else? - Neowin Forums</title>

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />...

So the browsers will know what to use. However, on pages that don't have a charset declaration, the browser has to guess.

Most of the time when you are seeing encoding errors, then your browser was forced to guess and guessed iso-8859-1, when the page really needed UTF-8.

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