Why does this page
http://reboltutorial.com/cgi-bin/designpatterns-quiz.cgi
shows a ? in the sentence (at least on my firefox)
Separates an object’s abstraction from its implementation
whereas I am using utf-8 ?
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Because the site declares UTF-8 as its content type, but the ´ is a ISO-8859-1 encoded character. Switch your editor to UTF-8 and type it in again (this is the recommended way over using entities).
Pekka
2009-12-06 22:44:14
Hey thanks, I didn't know my notepad2 could do that :) It was in ANSI and I switched to UTF-8 it corrected, thanks.
Rebol Tutorial
2009-12-06 23:03:07
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Because whoever made that page actually encoded it iso-8859-1.
Jonathan Feinberg
2009-12-06 22:44:39
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Just saying you're using UTF-8 doesn't make it so.
Where does that character come from? Is it static content, or does it come from a database or so? If it's from the database, make sure your entire web application stack uses UTF-8 as well. I don't know what you're using, but I know it's not straight-forward for PHP/Apache/MySQL.
If it's static content, make sure you save your HTML files as UTF-8.
Contrary to what the others have said, by the way, that character is not an ISO-8859-1 character, but a Windows-1252 character.
mercator
2009-12-06 23:08:53
Well, that *would* be ISO-8859-1, but the character on that tutorial page was `0x92`, which is decidedly absent from ISO-8859-1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1#Codepage_layout
mercator
2009-12-06 23:25:14
Unfortunately, ISO-8859-1 as used by web browsers has come to mean Windows code page 1252.
bobince
2009-12-06 23:53:08