That darn question mark (instead of the copyright sign)
Some browsers don't show the copyright sign - instead they place a question mark there.
This has annoyed me for some time until I finally realised all I had to do is put an image of it there instead.
HA!
Busy posted this at 10:08 — 22nd October 2005.
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& c o p y ; (no spaces) rather than ©
cygonaut posted this at 10:34 — 22nd October 2005.
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Thanks, Busy.
I haven't checked a lot of Yahoo! pages but if you go into their groups section using Mozilla Firefox you'll notice a question mark where the copyright sign should be.
My bottom-of-the-page java is at
http://www.cygo.com/menuleb.js
And here's its content:
document.write("Suggest a Site -")
")
document.write("ABOUT US -")
document.write("WRITE US - ")
document.write("Terms of Service -")
document.write("Privacy Policy")
document.write("THE CREDITS")
document.write("Copyright")
document.write("
document.write("2005 Cygo.com. All rights reserved")
The image:
Busy posted this at 10:46 — 22nd October 2005.
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The copyright can be done several ways, & c o p y ; (no spaces) is the normal way but also depends on the font style as some fonts do not have symbols included.
if pages contain a lot of question marks: ????????? ????? ?????? ... then it's a langauge thing, we see the question marks but people with the language pack (usually Chinese etc) see that language.
To do the '©' is alt 0169 if anyone is interested, change the font to symbol and doing the alt 0169 will give you a heart, :Þ
cygonaut posted this at 11:13 — 22nd October 2005.
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OK. GREAT!!
Your suggestion worked.
Here's the line with the & c o p y ; (no spaces) added:
document.write("Copyright & c o p y ; (no spaces) 2005 Cygo.com. All rights reserved")
Thanks loads, Busy.
Now with global outreaching and multiple language fonts in the play, an image might be better, it seems, but I'm sticking with your & c o p y ; (no spaces) tip - at least for now.
Thanks again.
demonhale posted this at 14:54 — 22nd October 2005.
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and that should be the way copyrights will be done like for trademark would be & t r a d e ; (no spaces) and so on, therefore making also your site validate...
Greg K posted this at 14:54 — 22nd October 2005.
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You may also want to read this thread:
http://www.webmaster-forums.net/showthread.php?t=29126
-Greg
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