blackmartinix Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 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 ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakey_snake Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 Have you tried changing your character encoding? A link to some of the sites you're having problems with would help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackmartinix Posted November 9, 2007 Author Share Posted November 9, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceDogg Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 I thought it was suppose to be on western, but I've seen this too and I'm going to try this. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakey_snake Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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