Help needed - characters have changed to Question marks

When I view my web page in Internet Explorer, characters such as TM
(Alt+0153) © (Alt+0169) ­® (Alt+0174) all show as question marks (?). All
appear correct when previewed in FP2000. I have downloaded on other
computers
with the same result. How could I fix the problem??
TIA John
www.industrialicesystems.co.nz

Ronx
Thu Oct 07 05:10:52 CDT 2004

Your symbols need to be inserted as entities in the form & #169; (without
the space between & and #) where the number is the ASCII code for the
character.

It is possible that your server is delivering the page with UTF-8 character
set, over-riding any character set you have defined in the page. UTF-8 will
display symbols inserted into the HTML with their ASCII codes as ? marks or
boxes, whereas entities will always display correctly.

A list of entities can be found at
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entitiesref.asp

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Ron

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"John Cooper" <coopers@internet.co.nz> wrote in message
news:egz3GPFrEHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> When I view my web page in Internet Explorer, characters such as TM
> (Alt+0153) © (Alt+0169) ­® (Alt+0174) all show as question marks (?). All
> appear correct when previewed in FP2000. I have downloaded on other
> computers
> with the same result. How could I fix the problem??
> TIA John
> www.industrialicesystems.co.nz
>
>
>

MD
Thu Oct 07 09:49:52 CDT 2004

Hi John,

Are you including them as entity codes or using Insert | Symbol


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"John Cooper" <coopers@internet.co.nz> wrote in message news:egz3GPFrEHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> When I view my web page in Internet Explorer, characters such as TM
> (Alt+0153) © (Alt+0169) ­® (Alt+0174) all show as question marks (?). All
> appear correct when previewed in FP2000. I have downloaded on other
> computers
> with the same result. How could I fix the problem??
> TIA John
> www.industrialicesystems.co.nz
>
>
>

John
Thu Oct 07 15:45:35 CDT 2004

I just used Alt+Code to insert the characters, so I will try the entity
method you mention. My Webhost server has recently changed so that could be
the problem.
Thanks, John

John
Thu Oct 07 16:01:59 CDT 2004

Thanks guys - all fixed now by using those entities, something else I have
learnt!
John