What is this?? - Page 2

alexk13 (Alex) · #21 25-02-2011, 04:58 PM

As a web programmer, I can shed a bit of light on this issue. It is something to do with the character set that the page is encoded with

Without getting too technical, most pages are encoded with the utf-8 character set (also used by default is nothing is specified)
The code for this looks like:

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

@ballaratdragons
If you have access to edit the code on the website, you can insert this little gem into the <head> section of the html code, and it should solve the problem

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

I hope this helps with some understanding of why weird "sybols" show up at least.

dugnsuz (Doug) · #22 25-02-2011, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

Hey Doug, I know it's an old thread but, those silly box things pop up from time to time.

In our SV Camp website scroll right to the bottom of the page to the copyright and what do you see?
http://astronomycamps.bravehost.com/past.html

Now look at the same spot on this page of the same website

http://astronomycamps.bravehost.com/upcoming.html

Weird

They are both supposed to be a circled 'C', the international copyright symbol.

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexk13

As a web programmer, I can shed a bit of light on this issue. It is something to do with the character set that the page is encoded with

Without getting too technical, most pages are encoded with the utf-8 character set (also used by default is nothing is specified)
The code for this looks like:

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

@ballaratdragons
If you have access to edit the code on the website, you can insert this little gem into the <head> section of the html code, and it should solve the problem

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

I hope this helps with some understanding of why weird "sybols" show up at least.

Cheers Ken and Alex.
Didn't understand a word of your post Alex! But thanks for trying to clear up this once and for all

Doug

mithrandir (Andrew) · #23 26-02-2011, 09:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexk13

As a web programmer, I can shed a bit of light on this issue. It is something to do with the character set that the page is encoded with ... ISO-8859-1 ...

IIS uses ISO-8859-1 so that is not the reason. The box with '0007' is the way codepoints with no displayable representation are shown.
If the original byte was the two bytes 0007 that is the UTF-8 codepoint for Control-G. It it is the single byte 07 is the ISO-8859-1 or ASCII for Control-G.

However ISO-8859-1 would display 0007 as two boxes with 0000 and 0007

Control-G is supposed to make an audible sound so it appears they are trying to bring attention to themselves. See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_character

mozzie (Peter) · #24 26-02-2011, 09:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt Wastell

Hi Doug

I can not see the square at all - it just show up on my computer - in the link I see all the usual stuff but many of the symbols are not there! I am on a Mac.

same here matt... no symbol on a mac too.....

mithrandir (Andrew) · #25 26-02-2011, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by mozzie

same here matt... no symbol on a mac too.....

Several links say things like this, so I guess newer Macs have the same problem. Roll on UTF-8.

The Mac OS Roman character set (often referred to as MacRoman and known by the IANA as simply MACINTOSH) has most, but not all, of the same characters as ISO-8859-1 but in a very different arrangement; and it also adds many technical and mathematical characters and more diacritics. Older Macintosh web browsers were known to munge the few characters that were in ISO-8859-1 but not their native Macintosh character set when editing text from Web sites. Conversely, in Web material prepared on an older Macintosh, many characters were displayed incorrectly when read by other operating systems.

dugnsuz (Doug) · #26 01-03-2011, 11:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vjamefrazierq

Ionic Straightener

You brighten up my old posts with your crappy ads!

Visionoz (Bill) · #27 02-03-2011, 12:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dugnsuz

You brighten up my old posts with your crappy ads!

Hi Doug

Must've been your avatar mate!! That must have stirred that spammer to get you to straighten your hair!!

Cheers
Bill

MrB (Simon) · #28 27-03-2011, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by dugnsuz

You brighten up my old posts with your crappy ads!

Quote:

Originally Posted by pchigeorgex

Cuppoccino Cups

and again... LOL

Octane (Humayun) · #29 28-03-2011, 10:12 PM

Hey Simon,

If it's not too late, are you able to edit your post to remove the actual link to the spammed site?

I just reported ANOTHER one that was left as a reply to this thread. Two in two days, lol.

H

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrB

and again... LOL

dugnsuz (Doug) · #30 01-04-2011, 08:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Octane

I just reported ANOTHER one that was left as a reply to this thread. Two in two days, lol.

H

...it's that bloody symbol I tells ya!