COPY RIGHT - Whats the story with...

DIVAD3 · 2010-05-04, 08:20 AM

What is the stroy with microsoft and web pages not reconizing the C symbol after the word copy right and it is replaced ith a ? question mark? I see this not only on my site but many others as well.

DVDIII

cd34 · 2010-05-04, 01:42 PM

It usually means that the content headers or the meta content-type is set improperly to ISO-8859-1 and the copyright symbol was put in as a UTF-8 character.

© is the proper way to use the copyright symbol, though, many web editors allow it to be entered as © which is 'invalid'. © should properly display no matter what the encoding.

It is also possible that they have picked a display font that doesn't contain the copyright symbol and it renders it as a ? or unknown character.

2010-05-04, 08:20 AM	#1
DIVAD3 I'm going to the backseat of my car with the woman I love, and I won't be back for TEN MINUTES Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Up-Sate NY ! Posts: 79	COPY RIGHT - Whats the story with... What is the stroy with microsoft and web pages not reconizing the C symbol after the word copy right and it is replaced ith a ? question mark? I see this not only on my site but many others as well. DVDIII

2010-05-04, 01:42 PM	#2
cd34 a.k.a. Sparky Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: West Palm Beach, FL, USA Posts: 2,396	It usually means that the content headers or the meta content-type is set improperly to ISO-8859-1 and the copyright symbol was put in as a UTF-8 character. © is the proper way to use the copyright symbol, though, many web editors allow it to be entered as © which is 'invalid'. © should properly display no matter what the encoding. It is also possible that they have picked a display font that doesn't contain the copyright symbol and it renders it as a ? or unknown character. __________________ SnapReplay.com a different way to share photos - iPhone & Android