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![]() The site developer intended this page for monolingual Japanese speakers in Japan and so never declared an encoding.Īn improperly encoded Japanese site seen on a browser with Western settings. The image below was taken from a Japanese site displaying Roman character gibberish. You may need to change the encoding to Unicode or Western depending on the error. If a writer or developer accidentally inserts these characters from an Word file, they may be encoded as win‑1252 or and not display properly. The page should say "But it’s such a "nifty quote" – Darn it!" These are actually characters which fall outside of English ASCII encoding. Misencoded PunctuationĪ more subtle error is that an English language page may not correctly display some symbols such as curly quotation marks, curly apostrophes and long hyphens. ![]() However, there can be some errors which lead to incorrect displays. A well-formed Web page needs to declare an encoding such as Unicode so that the broswer can match the character numbers to a character.
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