Strange characters coming up instead of quotation marks and apostrophe's.

[hAppY pAppY]

Hey all.

I've recently switched to using Mac, and since then, I've been having issues. Anytime I use quotations or apostrophe's (in dreamweaver) it ends up putting these strange characters in instead.

Also note, that these changes only happen once it's been ftp'd.

See below for an example:

http://synergydistribution.com/downloads/problem.gif

[coconut]

taking text from a mac and putting it into html alot of the times will cause this to happen, clean up your code. Are you taking your text from notepad? It might render cleaner. I work on a pc, but I know when I cut and past text from a mac given file and place it on the page on my pc, i will have that problem. The way to fix that for me is to cut and paste the text into a notepad program, clean up the extra and paste into my page.


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[hAppY pAppY]

coconut said...
taking text from a mac and putting it into html alot of the times will cause this to happen, clean up your code. Are you taking your text from notepad? It might render cleaner. I work on a pc, but I know when I cut and past text from a mac given file and place it on the page on my pc, i will have that problem. The way to fix that for me is to cut and paste the text into a notepad program, clean up the extra and paste into my page.

It even happens when I type something from scratch, not just from copying and pasting. It's annoying as hell.

[coconut]

Are you using CSS


What do I look like a smoken monkey?

[hAppY pAppY]

coconut said...
Are you using CSS

not on this particular site, but I usually do.

[coconut]

that might fix the problem.


What do I look like a smoken monkey?

[hAppY pAppY]

coconut said...
that might fix the problem.

I'll give it a shot! thanks.

[Benjamin]

You need to use HTML codes for characters outside the ISO character set, like apostraphes('), amphersands (&) etc.
In Dreamweaver go to Insert -> HTML Special Character -> Other.

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[Invader Xan]

That used to confuse me as well... All to do with character coding. It seems a silly thing to ask these days, but I assume you're using UTF-8 (Unicode) character coding? I used to have th trouble, because Windows-based machines use Western (ISO-) encoding of one kind or another, and Apples use Western (MacRoman).

Admittedly, I haven't done any HTML in years (literally!), but I was under the impression that the newer versions of Dreamweaver and/or Go Live had settings to solve the problem. If there is, it'll be a solitary checkbox somewhere in the preferences labelled 'Fix Quotes' or somesuch. Of course, I could be wrong.

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[Patrick Shannon]

I would even avoid using something like Notepad to write something like CSS in. When I started with CSS on my website, I was going batty trying to figure why my Notepad saved pages was not working correctly. I then found out that even Notepad adds some extra overhead junk (whatever you want to call it) in their document (although this wasn't obvious even when searching through the saved code). The website I learned this from recommended BBEdit (which is tailored towards script writing) instead. I switched over to this and resaved everything through BBEdit, and my problems were solved.

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[coconut]

I have used notepad C+ as well. There are some good free note pads for writing code, just do a search.


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