Symbols appearing as boxes?

[Sonars_UK]

Hi,

I've recently published the following website:

http://www.partyflow.com/weddings.htm

If you have a look at the copyright notice at the bottom of the page the
box/square that appears there should be the copyright symbol.

I've looked at the code and the correct symbol is there. I just can't
figure out what's going on.

I'm finding this REALLY frustrating and would appreciate your advice.

Thanks in advance.

Sonars UK

 

[James Ivey]

Are you on a PC or a Mac? If PC, try using Alt-0169 to enter the copyright
symbol.

James

 

[Ronx]

You have encoded the page as Windows-1252 in FrontPAge, but your server
is forcing it to be displayed as UTF-8.
Either ask your host to remove the HTTP header that sets the UTF-8
characterset, or use the copyright character reference in code-view.
& c o p y ; without the spaces, but including the "&" and the ";"
[spelled here with spaces to avoid problems with HTML forums.]

Note that if you use the character reference and then right click in
Code View and use Reformat HTML, the character reference will revert to
the extended ASCII code, and you will be back to square one.

Another alternative is to change the page encoding to UTF-8 in
FrontPage.

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

HTML is plain ASCII text. Most symbols are not. Furthermore, only certain
characters ASCII characters are legal in an HTML document so even the ASCII
symbol for a copyright needs to be done differently. For example, there is a
copyright symbol © registered trademark symbol ® a space symbol
  etc..

A good base reference is: http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm The HTML Name
column holds the important codes that will be needed for particular symbols
such as the copyright.

 

[Sonars_UK]

FANTASTIC REPLIES!

Much appreciated. I can stop scratching my head now )


Sonars UK