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2003-09-13 Middle East

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Posted by Mike 2003-09-13 6:54:16 AM|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Anyone else seeing apostraphes displayed as question marks here or is it just me?

Posted by Parabellum 2003-9-13 11:37:52 AM|| 2003-9-13 11:37:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 That seems to happen when I post from my home machine, but not when I use the one at the office. I use Netscape at home and IE at the office; could this be the reason?

Posted by Mike 2003-9-13 12:08:59 PM|| 2003-9-13 12:08:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I get the question-marks too, and I'm using Opera. Guess it's a transliteration problem. I've seen it before - in fact it's quite prevalent on Christian Science Monitor, and on a couple of other large sites. You get used to it.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-9-13 8:59:23 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-9-13 8:59:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Their one hesitation is over the reaction of the Bush administration. Would it, too, be purely verbal? I think the consensus of Israeli politicians is that domestic views in the U.S. will prevent the Bush administration from abandoning Israel, after Israel has done precisely what the U.S. did in Afghanistan and Iraq -- "regime change". It would look too much like hypocrisy.

About time someone put two and two together over there and decided that they can count on the vocal support of the American people. This may be time to write a letter and let our representatives know how we feel about this.

Posted by Ptah 2003-9-13 9:08:53 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-9-13 9:08:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Jumping into the "question mark" discussion a day behind... The problem is Microsoft-related. They use

"...their own "extension" to Latin-1 [the standard character coding for English-language web pages], in which a variety of characters which do not appear in Latin-1 are inserted in the range 0x82 through 0x95--this having the merit of being incompatible with both Latin-1 and Unicode... These characters include open and close single and double quotes, em and en dashes... [T]he result that the owners of these [Microsoft generated] pages look like semi-literate morons when their pages are viewed on non-Microsoft platforms (or on Microsoft platforms, for that matter, if the user has selected as the browser's font one of the many TrueType fonts which do not include the incompatible Microsoft characters)." --Demoroniser man page

When your browser doesn't understand a character, it substitutes a "?". Usually the culprits are MSFT's ?smart? opening and closing quotes, or the use of a "right single quote" [?] in place of the apostrophe [']. There's probably more than you want to know about this at the link above.

Posted by Old Grouch 2003-9-14 1:42:59 PM|| 2003-9-14 1:42:59 PM|| Front Page Top

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