i am reading in html from a file and displaying it on a web page:
when i look at in the source i see:
The Club’s summer junior programs
but it shows up as:
The Club�s summer junior program
do you know whats happening here and why the � is shwowing up?
This is definitely a character encoding issue. It means the page says it has X encoding, but actually it has Y.
I'm guessing you (or someone close to you) is copy/pasting from Word and you are seeing the webby effects of word's [not so] smart quotes. The work around is to set the character encoding to utf-8 or windows-1252.
A very interesting read by Joel: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html about this topic, definitively a must read if you didn't already read this.
It explains pretty well why these problems occur, how they came to be and how to avoid it :).
May be you have copied text from a work editor, like MS Word, which changes quotes to open quotes and closed quotes characters. When such a text is copied to a text file, it gives these problems.
A simple solution can be to type these quotes again in the text editor.