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Re: strange characters in mozilla



On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 07:38:38AM -0600, Thomas E. Vaughan wrote:

> [I hope this isn't a FAQ; I've been reading this list for a
> while, and I haven't noticed anything related.]

> When I run the mozilla in debian unstable, I notice often
> that what should be an apostrophe appears instead as an
> umlauted 'y'.  There are other anomalies as well, each
> having to do with a punctuation character.

> What's going on?

You're viewing websites that are written in an invalid character set
which attempts to usurp reserved, private codepoints for punctuation
characters that Microsoft can't live without.

  <http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/>

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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