strange web page rendering

Eric "Shubes" plug at shubes.net
Thu Sep 28 11:15:04 MST 2006


Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> I'm in the process of migrating a small static web site from a windoze 
> host to apache (Centos4.4). The pages were composed with MS Publisher 
> (not by me). I've copied the files over to the new server, they are 
> accessible, and formatting looks ok for the most part.
> 
> However, in a few places, there now appears strange characters. When 
> rendered by Firefox, the strange character looks sort of like a comma, 
> and when rendered in IE the strange character appears as a question mark.
> 
> Original site: http://www.genesisgc.com/index_files/services.htm
> New site: http://genesisgc.dyndns.biz/index_files/services.htm
> 
> I've looked at the source, and there are no strange characters there, so 
> I take it that there's something in the html coding that's causing this 
> to happen on apache while it doesn't on windoze.
> 
> Any idea what the problem is?

Thanks to Randy, Jeremy, Keith, and Josef.
I used vi and cleaned things up.

I need to have a few kind words with the author. She's new to web authoring 
(it's not her 'normal' job), and is learning as she goes.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'


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