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Problem with encoding | You're right

Joanna Borowska — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:53:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: Problem with encoding
Poster: Joanna Borowska
Post title: You're right

I usually use "regular" apostrophes (I've checked my other questions and they look ok in both designs). But for this particular question I copied the text from some other source and probably they used the "wrong" quotation marks.

Thanks a lot for all the trouble you took to help me solve the mystery :)
Cheers!

Problem with encoding | Apostrophes, plain quotes and left and right quotes

Robert Tucker (X) — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:45:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: Problem with encoding
Poster: Robert Tucker (X)
Post title: Apostrophes, plain quotes and left and right quotes

Looking into it a bit more, you are using a right single quotation mark rather than an apostrophe and, of course, left and right quotation marks rather than plain vertical ones.

[url removed]

According to:

[url removed] #unicode

these are not in the ISO 8859-1 character set.

So maybe it will be the case that if you just use apostrophes and plain quotes you won't have the problem.

Why the non- ISO 8859-1 characters work with the earlier KudoZ versions and not the beta, I still don't know.

Problem with encoding | Thanks, Robert

Joanna Borowska — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:43:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: Problem with encoding
Poster: Joanna Borowska
Post title: Thanks, Robert

Now I at least know what the problem is.
And of course I meant QUOTATION marks, not QUESTION marks- sorry for the typo.

Problem with encoding | Reading HTML as text?

Robert Tucker (X) — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:02:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: Problem with encoding
Poster: Robert Tucker (X)
Post title: Reading HTML as text?

[quote]ryfka wrote:

Try looking at my question in the old and then the new design: [url removed] Although the encoding stays the same (ISO-8859-2), in the new design the question marks change into strings of numbers and stuff like #@*&!?# (the same for Polish diacritics). With the old design, everything works fine. Help?[/quote]

The display is, as far as I can see, the same with my browser set to ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-2. The only difference I find is that in the beta version ' , and are represented by the html encodings for these characters.

The beta version is somehow reading html code as text, it seems to me. But if that's the case, why doesn't it have trouble with the ampersand?

[Edited at 2005-08-27 20:40]

Problem with encoding | Beta design is to blame?

Joanna Borowska — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 10:46:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: Problem with encoding
Poster: Joanna Borowska
Post title: Beta design is to blame?

Maybe the problem is not with encoding after all. Try looking at my question in the old and then the new design: [url removed] Although the encoding stays the same (ISO-8859-2), in the new design the quotation marks change into strings of numbers and stuff like #@*&!?# (the same for Polish diacritics). With the old design, everything works fine. Help?

[Edited at 2005-08-27 20:43]

Problem with encoding | not necessarily

Joanna Borowska — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:41:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: Problem with encoding
Poster: Joanna Borowska
Post title: not necessarily

Up till now my browser settings were fine, the encoding started switching after the launch of the new design. I remember that some time ago there were similar problems ( [url removed] ) but then everything went back to normal (thanks to Jason). It's probably due to all the changes the site has recently been undergoing.

[Edited at 2005-08-27 10:33]

Problem with encoding | Browser settings?

Robert Tucker (X) — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:14:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: Problem with encoding
Poster: Robert Tucker (X)
Post title: Browser settings?

But you are always able to select the correct encoding from View > (Character) Encoding ?

Maybe also check your browser's default encoding is set to the one you most generally use.

Any response you enter will take the encoding to which your browser is set at the time. If you view it with a different browser encoding setting then, of course, (much of) it will appear a mess.

Have a look at:

[url removed]

Problem with encoding

Joanna Borowska — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:49:00 +0000

Forum: ProZ.com technical support
Topic: Problem with encoding
Poster: Joanna Borowska

When I switch from the Beta to V3 design, the encoding goes crazy (changing from ISO-8859-2 to ISO-8859-1). Even if try switching the design back to the Beta version, the encoding stays changed. The problem disappears only when I go to the list of KudoZ questions and open the question again.

Also, when I entered a response to a peer comment, the encoding was ok, but when I then decided to change my response, the encoding went mad and my new response appeared as a complete mess (only in the new design, though- in the old one everything looks ok).

Now I'm wondering if it's a general problem or just me and my stupid computer. Any ideas?

[Edited at 2005-08-26 16:16]