Posted by Chris Vogel on 12/21/06 15:25

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- - Bob - wrote:
> I thought the apostrophe/sinngle quote was a safe character to use,
> but I just ran into a Mac use who had it showing up as a question mark
> (unknown character). Coding it as a ’ fixed the issue.
>
> Is this a problem unique to this user... or is it a regular issue when
> producing in a Windows standard character set and displaying on a Mac
> ? Do I need to get smarter about declaring the right character set ?
> Or do I need to encode all apostrophes ?
>
> Thanks,

You can continue to encode them, but I would suggest switching to the
UTF-8 encoding. You should be able to insert them directly then, along
with the occasional Arabic, Cyrillic, etc.

It's such a turn-on to see multiple scripts getting along on the same
page.
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