Weird characters

  • A clients blog has been working fine but all of a sudden we are getting formatting characters in the text like: any ideas?

    Ia€?ve worked for a long time as a writer and editor for a wide range of corporate and government clients. Most of this work is made to order (a€?You want onions with that annual report?a€?; a€?That news release: over easy or scrambled?a€?). But as often as I can

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  • Site look ok in IE7 and FF2 as far as I can tell. You do have validation errors which mean html mistakes which can cause problems. See validator.w3.org.

    How are you doing your ” and ‘? Using & and #8220;?

    Thread Starter okephoto

    (@okephoto)

    I should mention the site in question:

    https://www.georginamontgomery.com

    Well, the good news is that site has a lot less validation errors than your site :^)

    I have seen this with code or text being translated from Mac to Windows and back or about any other combination of back and forth. Use Unicode entity like & and #8220; and & and #8221; for your quotes. Leave out the “and” – couldn’t get it to display the code.

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