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Looks Good
Written on 07/26/05 at 12:06:43 GMT by Jos
This came out a lot better than does the data that goes through our MySQL database for the directory. Not sure what the problem with that is yet.
Conversion Code for Malformed Characters
Written on 07/28/05 at 12:04:27 GMT by Jos
Not sure if the following always holds true, but probably. This is a chart for converting characters that have become garbled by incorrect encoding type fed through MySQL. It may be used to fix characters that were submitted before content-type lines have been changed to the correct values:
= <-space = À = â =  = ä = Ä = ç = Ç = è = È = é = É = ê = Ê = ë = Ë = î = Î = ï = Ï = ô = Ô = œ = Œ = ù = Ù = û = Û = ü = Ü = ÿ = ÿ ^ = ^ ` = ` ' = ' " = " = « = » = €
American Texts
Written on 07/30/05 at 16:00:52 GMT by Norbert
I see a lot more special characters (better here: punctuation marks) used by careful writers in American and British texts.
As an example take this page: http://groups.msn.com/SiteLibrary/notallowed.msnw Note the use of the correct apostrophes around the words "hydroponic", "Under Construction", "Soon to Come" instead of the ASCII make-shift replacements; - more: I see the use of the correct dashes (emdash, endash) where ASCII has only the minus sign; - the hyphen; - the non breaking space; - the conditional hyphen; - also the ellipsis (the three-dot symbol used to show an incomplete statement) I've seen instead of ...
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