"Curly" quote and apostrophes
I usually surf AppleInsider using Mozilla, and I've been seeing a lot of things like this lately:
If I look at the same page using Safari, the ? characters appear as curly quotes and apostrophes.
Looking at the page source for messages like this, I see single raw characters -- either the question marks or the quotes and apostrophes, not HTML entities like “ and ’.
For these characters to appear reliably, either the web site needs to use an appropriate HTTP content-type/charset header, the META tag equivalent, or to encode characters such as these as entities. I don't know how much control the vB software gives you over such things, but I imagine inserting a META tag is probably the easiest fix.
I'm guessing that since the AppleInsider web pages don't explicitly provide a charset definition, Mozilla is defaulting to ISO Latin 1 or Windows encoding while Safari is defaulting to MacRoman.
Quote:
I don?t know if he?ll like that song ?Vapid? or not.
...instead of...
I don’t know if he’ll like that song “Vapid” or not.
...or...
I don't know if he'll like that song "Vapid" or not.
I don?t know if he?ll like that song ?Vapid? or not.
...instead of...
I don’t know if he’ll like that song “Vapid” or not.
...or...
I don't know if he'll like that song "Vapid" or not.
If I look at the same page using Safari, the ? characters appear as curly quotes and apostrophes.
Looking at the page source for messages like this, I see single raw characters -- either the question marks or the quotes and apostrophes, not HTML entities like “ and ’.
For these characters to appear reliably, either the web site needs to use an appropriate HTTP content-type/charset header, the META tag equivalent, or to encode characters such as these as entities. I don't know how much control the vB software gives you over such things, but I imagine inserting a META tag is probably the easiest fix.
I'm guessing that since the AppleInsider web pages don't explicitly provide a charset definition, Mozilla is defaulting to ISO Latin 1 or Windows encoding while Safari is defaulting to MacRoman.