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Subject:Re: Accidental à in html ... how? From:Roberta Hennessey <rahennessey -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Sean Brierley <sean -dot- brierley -at- gerbertechnology -dot- com> Date:Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:11:23 -0500
Look at the source in htnl and xhtml things like ampersands etc are
represented by code &6754& might be a single quote the code is prob off im
not at desk but w3 has tsbles showing the codes for different things
On Dec 8, 2015 10:18 AM, "Sean Brierley" <sean -dot- brierley -at- gerbertechnology -dot- com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got some HTML that has à in place of registered trademark symbols.
>
> I tested saving from Word and a variety of copy-paste-into-text editor
> scenarios, but can't figure out how this happened.
>
> I want to help the original author fix their process so à does not show up
> in their html text. Anyone have any ideas how they did this? (No, there is
> no Norwegian or foreign language involved, it's all American English.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sean
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