My symbols turn to question marks

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My apostrophes, copyright symbols and some Latin accents become question
marks or other oddball symbols. I have tried different font's. I look at
them in FP2003 Preview...they are OK...but when I (and others) see them on
the web, what was SUPPOSED to be an apostrophe or copyright symbol is a
question mark. On one site I use the city Bogota a lot. The "a" has an
accent over it. It should be Bogotá but it end up being Bogot (square)

Alex
 
Your symbols need to be inserted as entities in the form & #159; (without
the space between & and #) where the number is the ASCII code for the
character.

It is possible that your server is delivering the page with UTF-8 character
set, over-riding any character set you have defined in the page. UTF-8 will
display symbols inserted into the HTML with their ASCII codes as ? marks or
boxes, whereas entities will always display correctly.

A list of entities can be found at
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entitiesref.asp
 
I have a similar problem. When creating a web page with MS word or Excel, any
space turns to ?. In Internet Explorer, if I change Encoding from UTF-8 to
Western European, everything is fine. But next time the page is open, the
browser again insists on UTF-8 encoding. Even when the page is created to "
force" Western European encoding.
This is also a new problem with the newest releases only.
 
Don't use word or excel (among others) to create web pages. It'll just give
you headaches.
Do use FrontPage, that's what it's for.
 
The characters with ASCII codes between 32 (space) and 126(~) will display
correctly under UTF-8, and almost every other character set.
I can only assume that the spaces that display as ? are not true spaces.
Word has a non-breaking space (CTRL+SHIFT+Spacebar) which may be causing
this.
What does the HTML code for the character look like?
 
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