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Weird characters

Posted Apr 7, 2004 15:34 UTC (Wed) by pkturner (subscriber, #2809)
In reply to: Weird characters by scglwn
Parent article: X.Org Foundation releases X Window System X11R6.7

When my Mozilla browser downloads the HTML, it has the byte codes 0x93 and 0x94 in those locations. Those are Windows codes, not part of the iso-8859-1 charset.


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Weird characters

Posted Apr 8, 2004 7:56 UTC (Thu) by scglwn (subscriber, #1245) [Link]

You are right, sorry for the confusion. After saving the page to a file, Firefox silently replaces the (invalid) character codes by the correct decimal references. Yeeks!

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