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Author Topic: Apostrophes showing up as Question marks.  (Read 1111 times)
Silmenume
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« on: April 16, 2005, 04:47:38 PM »

So I'm reading through the Provisional Glossary and I'm noticing something rather curious.  Certain symbols aren't being displayed properly on my computer.  For Example -

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Whiff Factor
    The effect of a high failure-rate for a given Resolution mechanic, especially when the rate does not accord with the character?s expected competence. A common source of Deprotagonizing; usually considered a Design flaw.[/list:u]


As you can see what I'm assuming to be the apostrophe is displaying as a question mark.

Here is another example -

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Transparency
    Rules design that does not call attention to the rules in operation. A controversial term; I suggest that it is subsumed within Coherence without reference to any degree of rules? detail or their quantitative vs. qualitative features. See Transparency and Transparency again.[/list:u]


Again I'll assume the question mark is supposed to be an apostrophe.

I checked the language setting on my IE and it is set to English (United States).

Anyone have an idea of what is going on and how to address it?
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J B Bell
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« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2005, 09:55:38 PM »

In my experience, this means that the original document was made using Word.  Some publishing programs handle this and turn it into the right HTML entity; most apparently don't.  Usually IE displays it OK and other programs have trouble, but I guess it can be a problem even for IE, at least sometimes.

From my perspective, this is about a broken authoring tool, not a broken browser.  Others may disagree.  At any rate, other than re-publishing the document, there's no simple solution.

--JB
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Silmenume
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« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2005, 01:06:39 AM »

Excellent!

Thank you for taking the time to respond!
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