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2005-01-25 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2005-01-25 2:38:22 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 why does the print look like this..didnÃ¢â¬â¢ or this OmokundeÃ¢â¬â¢ ??

Posted by inquiring mind?? 2005-01-25 4:26:04 AM|| 2005-01-25 4:26:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Try a different Character Encoding setting on your web browser. Unicode (UTF-8) will make the apostrophes display properly in the text samples you cited.

Posted by Dave D. 2005-01-25 6:14:22 AM|| 2005-01-25 6:14:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Thanks, Dave.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-01-25 7:45:51 AM|| 2005-01-25 7:45:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 YW, Mrs. Davis. But I'm still trying to find an encoding setting that unravels the following:

"The activists Ã¯Â¿Â½ all employees of the John Kerry (news - web sites) campaign Ã¯Â¿Â½ are accused of..."

What I see there, are question marks where the original Yahoo article had "long dash" characters.

When I look at the page source for the Yahoo article, I can see the character was written as an HTML code (an ampersand, a pound sign, then "151" for the ASCII code for long dash), but my theory is that the code doesn't carry over when copying and pasting the article to Rantburg.

Does ANYONE see long dashes instead of question marks in the text I italicized above? If so, then my theory is wrong...

Posted by Dave D. 2005-01-25 8:22:41 AM|| 2005-01-25 8:22:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Eds -

I've included the fix for this in the "squish" function. I'll apply it to the regular save routine when I get a few minutes.

Posted by Fred 2005-01-25 8:59:19 AM|| 2005-01-25 8:59:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 OT - Fonts
Dave D. - I set my browser to use my fonts all the time, switched to Book Antiqua and ISO-8859-1 and I can see the long dashes, apostrophes, etc., in the article. However looking down at the comments as I type this, I see all manner of strange characters.

Posted by eLarson 2005-01-25 9:36:52 AM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-01-25 9:36:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, now I do, too: I'm on my computer at work, completely different symptoms.

WTF... I guess if stuff like this didn't happen, we wouldn't have jobs. LOL!

Posted by Dave D. 2005-01-25 9:45:32 AM|| 2005-01-25 9:45:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 On Firefox / Linux I selected View -> Character Encoding -> Auto-detect -> Universal and that seemed to do the trick.

Dont know about others.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-01-25 9:50:07 AM|| 2005-01-25 9:50:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 From #8 - Yep, that's got it, and I can see the original artistic intent of each site designer. :)

Posted by eLarson 2005-01-25 9:56:31 AM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-01-25 9:56:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 OK, I just tried that in Firefox under WinXP, and it's still garfed up.

Thank you Bill Gates!

Posted by Dave D. 2005-01-25 9:58:36 AM|| 2005-01-25 9:58:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Also charged were Lewis Caldwell, Lavelle Mohammad[emphasis added], and Justin Howell.

Big surprise(not).

Posted by Steve from Relto 2005-01-25 10:04:13 AM|| 2005-01-25 10:04:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Fred's up fixing RB issues early in the a.m. Thanks Fred!

Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-25 10:15:43 AM|| 2005-01-25 10:15:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 (on topic)
What about the principle of respondeat superior? Shouldn't the Kerry Campaign be held responsible for the actions of its workers?

And why is it that Democrats have "activists" whereas Republicans have "extremists"?

Posted by eLarson 2005-01-25 10:39:48 AM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-01-25 10:39:48 AM|| Front Page Top

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