Any ideas whats going on?

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I build very simple web pages for a few friends. Just text and a few pics. I recently came across something that I am clueless how to solve. When the pages are displayed on my friends laptop or his daughters desktop, most or all of the punctuation is displayed as question marks. The pages display fine on everyone elses computer. Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.

Steve

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Have you included the charector encoding meta tag between the head tags?

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Another thought...have you possibly copied and pasted text from Word?

That is a no-no...all sorts of goobldy gook gets added when you do that.

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Roo, you are awesome. Yes, I cut and pasted from an e-mail, ie word doc! I will correct it asap. Do you know why it only shows up on some computers? Thanks, Steve

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Yet another thought...you aren't using some MS app like Publisher or Word's 'export' option are you?

(That is another disasterous no-no)

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I started noticing this in Firefox only. some places have like a little diamond that comes up with a question mark in it.

-Greg

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Again....is the charecter endcdoing meta tag missing on pages where this is happening?

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As an example, see http://www.weeklyraves.com/articles/pokerCalculator.asp

The first paragraph in FF comes up with a <?> symbol (in ie, it displays a question mark) towards the end of it.

This page has http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"

-Greg

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How did you create this page? What did you use?

Why this ampersand number symbol and the numbers instead of just an apostraphe - you're?

You're charecter meta tag should be:
meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"

It looks to me like you are using some kind of wonky editor that is tossing is lots of bad stuff.

Roo

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You also are mssing the doctype!

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