>
>Whenever a web page has an apostrophe (') in it (or a strange charset
>letter like an Umlaut), my RH6.1 Netscape machine displays a question
>mark (?) instead. I have tried changing the character sets - even
>importing the Tahoma TFF from my redundant Microsnot partition - but
>Netscape still hasn?t{sic.} got the idea. Versions 4.x all do the same
>thing, and if I print the page out the fault is still there.
>
>So, how can I get a ' instead of a ? in Netscape?
*** RANT MODE ON ***
You get the idiots that insist on using MicroSh!t web page preparation
programs to throw them in the trash. The problem is that Bill Gate's
shitty (and I'm being polite) system places at least three characters
in the ASCII control character section, i.e., decimal 0 through decimal 31.
The apostrophe, open and close double-quotes are placed in the ^R, ^S and
^T ASCII characters. Netscape, following Unix rules for characters sets,
doesn't know what to do with those control characters, so it displays a
question mark.
Why Bill Gates and his minions believe that they have the right to redo
the ASCII character set is beyond me, other than they are a$$ wipes who
believe they are god.
Am I pissed about this? You bet. I'm getting sick and tired of looking
at web pages that are character set encoded incorrectly. Of course, you'll
never be able to convince the idiots that use Gate's shitty platform to
create web pages, that there is anything wrong, since they look OK on their
computer. They just don't care.
Unfortunately, the only cure I know of is to get the Netscape programmers
to write in code that converts those three characters into the correct
characters. But that means that Gates and his minions win again.
*** RANT MODE OFF ***
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