Quoted speech

[Davis, David]

Yes, I occasionally see this on web-pages too, sometimes even on major international newspaper sites.

First thing to do: run the page you're looking at through http://validator.w3.org
There's a fair chance the page is incorrectly authored (header declarations are wrong) and that's why it isn't working in your browser.
(e.g. the author cut-and-pasted out of Word or something, with some Windows-specific encoding, and so the encoding in the file isn't actually what the file header is saying it is).
There's also a fair chance that the host's webserver is configured wrongly, and *that's* why it's not working properly in your browser (e.g. the encoding the web servers says it's using to serve the page isn't what it's actually using).

I doubt, though, that the reason it's not working is because it is not possible to use non-ASCII punctuation characters in a web page in the year 2014! Because it is :)  I'd advocate people's time would be better spent getting a good understanding of internationalisation and Unicode, rather than trying to convert their source back to ASCII.

David

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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 09:45:28 -0700
From: Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
To: "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: Re: Quoted speech
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Has someone published a modernized set of rules for web-safe fonts
that ensure larger character sets are displayed correctly?

You'd think that by 2014 curly quotes would be safe, but I encountered
missing-glyph icons for some just the other day, on a page where the
character set was UTF-8, using the latest version of Firefox on
Windows 7.

At my last job, one of the single-source targets for some of my docs
was 7-bit ASCII.

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