A challenge for you all...
What do you think caused the outcome on the following site:
http://www.breachamber.com/directory/CW_1050.HTM
It is a Chamber of Commerce site and all of the members' names are really messed up. I've seen this before. Any ideas on what caused it and how to fix it?
No, I am not their webmaster...lol
omni posted this at 23:03 — 16th October 2000.
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In the HTML source it looks like some one concatenated a printer driver.
%-12345X@PJL COMMENT HP LaserJet 5P/5MP (HP) Driver
@PJL COMMENT G 1.20
@PJL DEFAULT MPTRAY=FIRST
%-12345X@PJL SET RESOLUTION=600
@PJL SET PAGEPROTECT=AUTO
@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCL
Pretty funny stuff.
Greg
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Adam Oberdorfer posted this at 23:58 — 16th October 2000.
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The site was created using “ChamberWare Auto Web-Generator”, which is obviously a top-notch program. Usually the character problem (all the squares) is caused by corrupted fonts or characters not supported by your browser.
Cactus posted this at 00:29 — 17th October 2000.
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Adam, did you see the squares when you looked at the site? If it were the browser's fonts, it wouldn't be everyone's browser. Surely someone would have the proper font installed.
Weird, huh?
I'm thinking that someone botched up Chamberware somehow...
Adam Oberdorfer posted this at 00:40 — 17th October 2000.
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It looks like the characters are non-standard. In fact it references HP LaserJet drivers a few times, as Greg pointed out.
Cactus posted this at 01:34 — 17th October 2000.
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Well.....you guys are smart!
It got the best of me, so I contacted Chamberware and the problem was that they are missing a Windows printer driver ("Generic/Text Only").
Congratulations!
anat posted this at 12:56 — 18th October 2000.
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Interesting.
But then, why are their some lines in proper English?
I've had such gibberish in files when I uploaded them in the wrong format - like when you upload HTML or Perl as binary instead of text.
Anat
Adam Oberdorfer posted this at 20:58 — 18th October 2000.
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Another thing I failed to mention or clarify in my last post: When a font is not supported by a browser the source will still display accurately. In this case the parts of the actual source is in a character format not supported.
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