UTF-8?

The encoding is easy to change, just one line, but the current setting (charset=iso-8859-1) is a compromise that seems to allow the most things people post to work. I may have tried utf-8 already, but I can give it another try and see how it goes.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Okay, all set. Let me know how it goes.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Okay, I see the problem with UTF-8. In Chrome, some apostrophes do not display properly, and as I recall there were a large number of characters that had problems in Chrome. Here's an example that is the title of a current thread: Now I imagine that in your browser, as long as it's not Chrome, that the above displays fine. I've already tried it in IE and it's fine. But in Chrome the apostrophe displays as a box.I suspect a Chrome problem, so let me leave it at UTF-8 and see if there are any complaints (besides me). I'll let Google know about the problem.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

That would be confusing if you have IE6, since the IE I tested it with was IE6.Most popular websites like the NYT and ESPN use UTF-8, but in Chrome they all screw up that "" character, and a number of others, like "". I think the problem for EvC Forum is that people cut-n-paste from a variety of websites, and a number of them don't use UTF-8, and so I end up getting complaints when the characters don't render properly. I'm going to switch back to ISO-8859-1 for now. If someone has an answer I'm all ears.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director