iWeb doesn't like punctuation marks??

Have you changed any fonts recently? In Font Book, try Resolving Duplicates from the Edit menu. If you open a new user account, does the problem carry through?

 

Is this text being pasted from Word document or something like that with so-called "smart quotes"? Some of those programs use nonstandard characters to do the "smart" thing and this kind of mismatch can result.

 

I have had some similar problems with iWeb myself, but I simply deleted the page and re-did it. That solved it, as it were. But I have no idea why it was doing it. I wonder if ftp programs can cause problems, because no matter which ftp program I use, when I upload a site to my brother's yahoo servers, the files transfer over, but won't load...

Problem is, I am not an expert on web stuff, so I don't know if its yahoo or iWeb, or my ftp program....anyway, this has nothing to do with your problem, but I have seen that before and I had to take the page down and redo it for it to look right...

 

It could be something like that. Thanks for posting the link. The characters that are displaying strangely, are not valid UTF-8 characters and not the characters iWeb should normally generate.

It's possible, but very unlikely, that the Web server is somehow trying to modify the non-ASCII characters and mangling them. I think it's much more likely, though, that the garbage codes are being generated by iWeb or the FTP program.

The first thing I would try is another FTP client. Make sure it's using binary mode for transfers.

If work that does not, the advice of Yoda should you take. Perhaps you could just add a new iWeb "site" for now, type a little bit of similar text with the apostrophes, and see if the problem is still there on the new pages.

 

Are you at all attached to the blog format? iWeb has its problems, but its ability to do simple content management without server-side help is a big win.

This page suggests that FTP settings are likely culprits, and it offers some recommendations for different popular clients. That's still what I think is the most likely problem too. What are you using for FTP?

 

It's all iWeb's fault

Here's the deal:

http://www.wikihow.com/Remove-Undesirable-ASCII-Characters-from-a-Site-Created-With-Apple-iWeb

-Switchy McSwitcher