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fadeout wrote on 2/2/2009, 3:59 PM

In my post above (or below) a symbol with the letters TM appended to it appeared several times. Does anyone know where it came from and how toget rid of it?

Comments

blink3times wrote on 2/2/2009, 4:36 PM

Good question and I have wondered that myself from time to time. For what ever reason when the fonts in the postings go smaller, all sorts of funny symbols start popping up.

Yours is not the only post that does that.

JackW wrote on 2/2/2009, 6:03 PM

Looks like the apostrophe is causing the problem by inserting coding rather than the symbol. Can't imagine why.

Jack

Chienworks wrote on 2/2/2009, 7:05 PM

There are several different apostrophes. Only one of them is in the standard 7-bit ASCII character set. The others are in the extended Unicode character set. So, if your browser is making the stylistic choice of using one of the alternate apostrophes then somewhere along the line of browser -> web server -> cgi-script -> database -> then back to cgi-script -> web server -> browser ... something isn't understanding it correctly and is converting it to an escape sequence and then breaking it up into separate characters.

Unicode can really be a pain in the backside sometimes, especially when not all the parts of the system understand it equally well.

musicvid10 wrote on 2/2/2009, 8:11 PM

The short answer is, your post contains Unicode characters, but it is being displayed as ISO-8859-1 in your browser.