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apostrophes showing-up as weird symbols in Safari (sometimes)
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Sometimes Safari displays apostrophes in the text of a web page as a weird symbol.
Is there anything that I can do to fix this?
MacOS X 10.6.7
Safari 5.0.4
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I never noticed that. Do you have a screenshot ?
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If I change my text encoding I can get it to show properly. View > Tex Encoding
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^^^ Yes, that worked.
Now I remember seeing this a few times. I always shrugged it off.
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Originally Posted by tightsocks 
That’s the site’s fault, not your Safari’s fault.
That page, for example, is encoded in ISO-8859-1 (aka Latin 1), but it doesn’t specify that like it’s supposed to. So the browser just uses the default character encoding (which is UTF-8). Latin 1 and UTF-8 have basic ASCII characters (letters, basic punctuation, numbers, etc.) in common, encoded the same way, so they all show up fine. But more advanced characters (like “curly quotation marks” and ‘curly apostrophes’, or even —em dashes— and –en dashes–) are encoded differently in the different character encodings; so they get mangled if the browser thinks it’s supposed to interpret the characters in the code as UTF-8 when they’re actually written as Latin 1.
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This does happen occasionally - even on major sites.
It is more of a nuisance, but I do expect my system to function correctly.
I'll keep the text encoding thing in mind, but it does bother me that I should have to lift a finger just to have text displayed properly.
Whether it is an issue with Safari or the web site one would think that by now computers would have figured out how to display 'advanced' punctuation...
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Whether it is an issue with Safari or the web site one would think that by now computers would have figured out how to display 'advanced' punctuation...
If the person making the web site makes sure to inform the computer what character encoding to expect, they have figured it out no problems.
As long as there are still multiple character encoding schemes around, this nuisance will continue to exist.
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