Resolved Odd characters

Why am I getting A(circumflex)£ when a price is shown on a web page.

Sometimes it will be 'a(circumflex)£ but instead of £, $ or € is shown.

A similar phenomena is shown instead of an apostrophe S etc;... But not

Using the currency symbol.

This has only recently occurred on my PC, could it be that at sometime I

Have inadvertently pressed a wrong key or something similar??

I find this very annoying, and as a very elderly 'senior' I prefer my text in

Good old plain English or have I got to suffer what I would term an

Un-necessary addition to our vocabulary

 

Hi steve,thanks for the advice. I found that following your instructions I was set up for ..English(United States) so am going to try running it with ..
English(United Kingdom).Will let you know in due course if it does the the trick,so bear with me until I receive a few messages then I will get back to you...Orlando.

 

It would help if we knew your location

If indeed you are in (or your hardware was designed for) the UK then switching to English(United Kingdom) would be appropriate.

Please see your User Control Panel to provide information like this and other important information such as completing your system details.

 

My apologies for not replying sooner, I am indeed located in the UK and since receiving your message I have been trying to follow the guidelines you Highlighted. Before I continue I have to remind you that despite my advancing years I am only a novice at this kind of work, as indicated in my profile, such as it is,and I will get back to you as soon as I have collated the information needed.
Orlando

 

No problem, please let us know the outcome

 

Have managed to collate my SYSTEM details and added them to User CP and added my location but cannot see them displayed anywhere.
I'm beginning to think that my problem is not down to my PC but a web problem as not all of the web pages I visit which quote prices use this annoying method. One of these web sites is my e-mail supplier IncrediMail. Your comments as to this possibility would be appreciated....Orlando

 

Regarding your system details...

I can see your location just fine now

Regarding the websites, it is the world wide web, not all sites will take account of your location and will only show prices in their local currency or could have issues with other currency.

Can you provide us with an example link?

 

Not sure how to provide you with a link so hope this 'Copy and Paste will suffice.


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Hi Steve. I hadn't forgotten you and if you have been following this thread you will see the problem I am having .
I will, of course, keep you informed if we happen to find a solution to this annoyance. in the mean time ,thanks for being there...Orlando

 

Is it just this site, "Tesco.com ".

I also see the same but it is site related and nothing having to do with your system settings.

Others see:
http://direct.tesco.com/q/buylist/id.4049.aspx

 

Hi

try playing around with the character encoding on your browser

(as a matter of interest, which browser(s) are you using?)

eg (using the Opera browser) check out the difference between:
Opera (auto-detect)
Opera (ISO-8859-1)
Opera (Windows-1252)
Opera (UTF-8)

I suspect that your browser is somehow "stuck" using ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252, from your description. Try to find what your browser is set to, see if you can set it to auto-detect - or failing that, try UTF-8 temporarily as an experiment perhaps?

...this particular page specifies that it uses Unicode UTF-8, so (unsurprisingly!) if I set Opera to UTF-8 it also gives the correct result!

In general, auto-detect is the best bet to get most pages displaying properly

...but if you get problems with a certain page, playing around with the other options may give you a better result

the commonest ones to try for this are
Windows-1252
Unicode UTF-8
ISO-8859-1

HTH & best wishes, HJ.

 

PS

all browsers are different about how they handle the character encoding, and particularly about whether the auto-detect takes precedence over user selection - sometimes it just simply doesn't seem to work the way you think it should, and sometimes it makes no difference - even if you refresh

and some web pages are not written with "valid" HTML - if the web page doesn't conform to the standards, then all sorts of odd things happen...

if the web page has been written "properly ", then auto-detecting the character set should work

best wishes, HJ

 

No. Most sites where a price is quoted for a commodity shows this phenomena.

 

Hi Hugh. I appreciate your endeavours to assist me but what you are showing me is way above my head. How to accomplish what you have shown is beyond my knowlege. The only thing I can tell you is that my browser is 'Windows Internet Explorer', at least, I believe it is as it always appears at the top of my tool bar when I am using the web......Orlando

 

Hi Orlando

thanks for letting us know which browser you are using

using Internet Explorer: from the View menu, choose "Encoding" and make sure that Auto-Select is ticked like this (I'm using IE8 here)

then try refreshing the page! ...and let us know if it solves the problem please

good luck & best wishes, HJ

 

Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to you, didn't realise I had to turn the page but here we are now.
I have carried out your instructions shown above and it appears to have done the old proverbial.
I went into a few websites that showed prices, including Tesco's and I am not seeing these horrible 'Odd Characters'. I'll not close this thread at the moment in case it's just a 'flash in the pan'. So expect me to get back to you(all) soon to confirm the good news and give you my undying thanks..Orlando

 

Hi Orlando

cheers for the progress report sounding promising!

Certainly, it's commonsense to make sure the change "sticks" OK + good news that you've been checking out some other sites as well. It wouldn't be too clever if the fix for that particular site ended up breaking other web sites...

best wishes, HJ.

 

Thank you for bearing with me over the last few days. I am pleased to say that after checking a number of sites I have come to the decision that I have ridded myself of those dreadded 'odd characters' which I never could have done without all of you helping me. So, with all sincerity.I once again say THANK YOU!!!....Regards.O W H Kinge.

 

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