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Old 04-01-2015, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by CJ View Post
The only unusual characters in this case are the inch sign and a plus sign.
If the inch sign is a left or right curly/sloped double quote Firefox will refuse to display any text.

The reply page has the meta tag "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1". Curly quotes do not exist in that encoding. They do exist in Windows-1252.

You'd need some means of forcing Firefox to treat it as Windows-1252 until such time as Firefox implements the HTML5 requirement that ISO-8859-1 be treated as Windows-1252. I guess Chrome already does that.

Try "View > Encoding, West European (Windows)".

To the webmasters, can you add "accept-charset=utf-8" to the form for the text box and see if that makes any difference.
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