? replacing all "" and apostrophes and dashes in HTML Text

[Guest]

HELP! My design view and preview mode all show what I have typed, but when
I go live it shows ? in place of all inverted commas and apostrophes etc.
Is there some sort of setting which I need to know about. It worked fine up
until a few weeks ago. If I go in to Front Page and replace the ? with the
correct punctuation, and upload again, it works. But never the first time
around. Very frustrating. Can anyone help?

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Something to keep in mind, inverted or stylistic versions of apostrophes and
quotes aren't valid. HTML is a plain text ASCII file. That means when you
have an apostrophe that faces in one direction or another (left or right
instead of the simple vertical) it's not a valid character. Same goes for
quotes. A lot of these can get put in by copying Word text or using special
fonts, but keep in mind that these are not valid since they cannot be
expressed directly in HTML. FP will put them into the HTML, but the browser
knows they're non-standard and will convert them into something else, such
as a ? or even a strange dark rectangle where the character should be.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

 

[Ronx]

See www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp/webfaqs.asp?fl=1101651334

Also try adding the following meta tag in code view, replacing anything
that is similar (which may have charset=Windows 1222> or similar.

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