Why suddenly the question marks?

Rails
1

Look at this page
http://eventsinindia.com/event/639

Everything looked fine sometime back. But now there are question
marks. I find such question marks on other pages too.

What’s the root cause and what’s the fix.

Thanks

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On Mar 15, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Neeraj K. wrote:

Look at this page
http://eventsinindia.com/event/639

Everything looked fine sometime back. But now there are question
marks. I find such question marks on other pages too.

What’s the root cause and what’s the fix.

Thanks

The page claims to be UTF-8, but the \225 characters are invalid in a
UTF-8 encoding. Could the page have been updated by someone pasting
text from a different encoding? Perhaps iso-8859-1 or similar from
Windows?

If you’re on a browser that can force the encoding, set it to ISO
Latin 1 and you’ll see those are text bullets (which makes sense when
you view the formatting of the page source. (For example, in Safari
View->TextEncoding->Western(ISOLatin1) makes the page look OK.)

-Rob

Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
[email protected]

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Hi Rob,

Thanks for the quick response and I would look into your answer in more
detail.

I must confess that I don’t get all this encoding issue. Is there a
resource ( paid or unpaid) which could discuss this UTF-8 encoding etc
in greatet detail. I guess an oreilly shortcut on something like this
would be useful to me.

Anyway I will continue to investigate this issue and will try to educate
myself.

Thanks

  • Raj
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I must confess that I don’t get all this encoding issue. Is there a
resource ( paid or unpaid) which could discuss this UTF-8 encoding etc
in greatet detail. I guess an oreilly shortcut on something like this
would be useful to me.

for starters… The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) – Joel on Software

seemed a decent overview…

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It’s an encoding mismatch.

In Safari I see the question marks when the page first loads. After
changing the text-encoding to latin-1 manually in the browser
everything is fine.

So, the content seems to be latin-1 encoded. Your server is issuing a
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 header though. My first
thought would be to check the database encoding (collation) and the
db connection encoding (database.yml).

Am 15.03.2007 um 22:19 schrieb Neeraj K.:

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