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Tuesday, November 1 - 11:43am

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I've noticed over the last couple of weeks that a great many articles and posts are littered with question marks where there should be quotation marks. Is the site having technical difficulties, or is it a side effect from copying and pasting from apps like Microsoft Word?

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Thursday, November 3 - 12:10am

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Matthew,

When text is copied and pasted between applications set to use different character sets, characters whose encoding differs between the two character sets are rendered as question marks. The encoding of characters from the old ASCII character set - most characters used in American English - is usually the same in all modern extended character sets, so those characters are not changed. Non-ASCII characters are rendered as question marks unless their representation in the two characters sets happens to be the same.

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Thursday, November 3 - 6:54am

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Adam, are you telling me that Windows doesn't use the same character set for all applications? How strange. I've been using Linux for years, and I don't have this problem when copying and pasting text.

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Thursday, November 3 - 7:42am

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Microsoft switched several times among different character sets and character set encodings in going from Windows 95 to Windows 2000 to Windows XP. To maintain compatibility with applications originally written for Windows 95, current Windows does allow different applications to use different character sets. And when open-source applications such as the Firefox browser are built to operate on several different platforms, the current character set is a user-setable option. Different web pages may use different character sets, indicated as an option in the HTML tag. When text is pasted into one of the SOLO pages from an application or web page that uses a different character set, you see question marks.

Dumb question about quotes.