the above is a screenshot. This website which I edit - really a
directory on my site - was updated tonight. I added the letter at the
very bottom of this page
the words Sydenham, SE London were put in curly brackets, but when I
checked the page I saw the blocks (does anyone know what they're
called?) in lieu.
I fiddled around including copying and pasting from my site including
the quote “as this quote from his website shows...”
and it still renders as blocks. I also updated my on-line
bibliography, and when I linked directly from
Nope. That page link forces the browser to guess the character encoding
(all of your pages do this) so there's a chance you'll get lucky -- it
all depend how the browser guesses. By the way, you have the same
problem on you own pages.
> Try it yourself and see what you get. As I said, these machines don't
> obey the laws of physics.
They do. You need to read up on character encodings and then ensure
that your pages is served with an HTTP header that matches the encoding
you choose to use for the page.
On Jan 19, 8:27 pm, Ben Bacarisse <ben.use...@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
> They do. You need to read up on character encodings and then ensure
> that your pages is served with an HTTP header that matches the encoding
> you choose to use for the page.
> --
> Ben.
You mean this of course
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
I will ensure this appears at the top of all my files from now on.
I won't bother jumping through hoops and being urged to sign up and pay just to look at a graphic file. Get your own server or at least use a free one that doesn't have all the annoying rigmarole, such as www.tinypic.com. And with them you can even find the native URL for the image and bypass their ads and user interface.
As for the rest of your "problems", they are only of interest on a sociopathetic level as insight into your need to ignore reasonable advice and then proclaim your astonishment at things working weirdly. You are certainly the "king of quirks mode"!
> I won't bother jumping through hoops and being urged to sign up and pay
> just to look at a graphic file. Get your own server or at least use a
> free one that doesn't have all the annoying rigmarole, such as
> www.tinypic.com. And with them you can even find the native URL for the
> image and bypass their ads and user interface.
It's really strange that he posts a screenshot on some pay site, eh? After all, he *does* have his own web space... :-)
I don't know what he's talking about because the comment about his "brackets" seems to refer to an image at his site. At least that is where the "Sydenham" text seems to be.
thedarkman <odemgoldenslipp...@googlemail.com> writes:
> On Jan 19, 8:27 pm, Ben Bacarisse <ben.use...@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
>> They do. You need to read up on character encodings and then ensure
>> that your pages is served with an HTTP header that matches the encoding
>> you choose to use for the page.
>> --
>> Ben.
It's best not to quote sig blocks, even short ones.
> You mean this of course
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
No, I don't. Entering "character encoding" and "HTTP header" into a
search engine might help.
> I will ensure this appears at the top of all my files from now on.
That won't fix any of the problems and it may cause new ones. Your
pages don't use HTML 4.01, so there is nothing to be gained by adding a
DOCTYPE line that says they do.
> the above is a screenshot. This website which I edit - really a
> directory on my site - was updated tonight. I added the letter at the
> very bottom of this page
> the words Sydenham, SE London were put in curly brackets, but when I
> checked the page I saw the blocks (does anyone know what they're
> called?) in lieu.
It's funny to see an old dinosaur like you standing in a new dinosaur's shoes (Dinah Shore's shoes?)
-- Myth, after all, is what we believe naturally. History is what we must painfully learn and struggle to remember. -Albert Goldman
> Nope. That page link forces the browser to guess the character encoding
> (all of your pages do this) so there's a chance you'll get lucky -- it
> all depend how the browser guesses. By the way, you have the same
> problem on you own pages.
Hey, you from Baltimore?
-- Myth, after all, is what we believe naturally. History is what we must painfully learn and struggle to remember. -Albert Goldman
> I won't bother jumping through hoops and being urged to sign up and pay
> just to look at a graphic file. Get your own server or at least use a
> free one that doesn't have all the annoying rigmarole, such as
> www.tinypic.com. And with them you can even find the native URL for the
> image and bypass their ads and user interface.
> As for the rest of your "problems", they are only of interest on a
> sociopathetic level as insight into your need to ignore reasonable
> advice and then proclaim your astonishment at things working weirdly.
> You are certainly the "king of quirks mode"!
