Ken Irving wrote:
Thu, 02 Mar 2000, ÷Ù ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌÉ:
Nothing we do get's rid of the question marks for fonts. See below...
BP AMOCO IGNORES MESSAGE FROM ?POLAR BEARS?
Activists arrested presenting case against company?s Arctic offshore oil drilling.
CHICAGO, March 1, 2000-Six Greenpeace activists (and four ?polar bears?) were arrested today at the BP Amoco (snipped)
I read in an article somewhere that this is caused by using editing tools (e.g., Microsoft's Frontpage?) which use non-standard character encodings. Presumably the characters show correctly on Microsoft platforms/browsers, but standards-compliant browsers represent the unknown encodings with '?'.
If necessary, this could be repaired with a bit of surgery on the final document, but it would be better to correct the problem at the source.
Your analysis is correct. There's a Windows program called demoroniser which will sort out the non-standard codes which MS software puts in. Find it at: http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser It'd be better if the problem could be sorted out on the fly by a proxy filter such as wwwoffle, but I don't know any which do that. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/