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Old 04-23-2010, 03:27 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Chriskander View Post
Hi Basschick: I didn't see questionmarks in your example. Formatting errors are always a problem with cross platform access. If you have formatting problems with an e-book you buy you should certainly complain to the publisher. If you experience problems on a website that offers a free sample, you might want to look at using a different browser. Firefox has always rendered my publisher's pages correctly for me.
This is not a browser issue. I run Firefox 3.6 as my standard browser, but I see the same question marks instead of double quotes in the provided link in Firefox, IE 8, Avant Browser and Maxthon (based on IE's rendering engine), SeaMonkey 1.1 and 2.0, Safari 4, and Google Chrome 5.

It's not just double quotes that aren't being correctly rendered. An assortment of other punctuation is getting shown as question marks.

The page is using the iso-8859-1 character set, which does include the punctuation symbols, so something else is going on, but I don't have the tools installed in FF at the moment to tell what.

Update:
Installed a tool or two. The site's developer should look at
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...DDDP002JDAVIES
and
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/v...DDDP002JDAVIES
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