My symbols turn to question marks

[news]

My apostrophes, copyright symbols and some Latin accents become question
marks or other oddball symbols. I have tried different font's. I look at
them in FP2003 Preview...they are OK...but when I (and others) see them on
the web, what was SUPPOSED to be an apostrophe or copyright symbol is a
question mark. On one site I use the city Bogota a lot. The "a" has an
accent over it. It should be Bogotá but it end up being Bogot (square)

Alex

 

[Ronx]

Your symbols need to be inserted as entities in the form & #159; (without
the space between & and #) where the number is the ASCII code for the
character.

It is possible that your server is delivering the page with UTF-8 character
set, over-riding any character set you have defined in the page. UTF-8 will
display symbols inserted into the HTML with their ASCII codes as ? marks or
boxes, whereas entities will always display correctly.

A list of entities can be found at
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entitiesref.asp

 

[Bjorn]

I have a similar problem. When creating a web page with MS word or Excel, any
space turns to ?. In Internet Explorer, if I change Encoding from UTF-8 to
Western European, everything is fine. But next time the page is open, the
browser again insists on UTF-8 encoding. Even when the page is created to "
force" Western European encoding.
This is also a new problem with the newest releases only.

 

[Wes]

Don't use word or excel (among others) to create web pages. It'll just give
you headaches.
Do use FrontPage, that's what it's for.

 

[Ronx]

The characters with ASCII codes between 32 (space) and 126(~) will display
correctly under UTF-8, and almost every other character set.
I can only assume that the spaces that display as ? are not true spaces.
Word has a non-breaking space (CTRL+SHIFT+Spacebar) which may be causing
this.
What does the HTML code for the character look like?