iWeb doesn't like punctuation marks??

[macadd1ct]

when i publish my iWeb site.. I am getting question marks where the punctuation should be. Is that a script error or is the font missing those characters? weird huh? Any ideas?

eg:
I���ve always been the point and shoot kind of photographer. With digital cameras these days it���s so easy to delete the bad ones. I���ve never really put much thought into how I take the photo until recently.
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[macadd1ct]

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when I choose to subscribe to RSS in Firefox I just get a page of coding and an error
'This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.'

It doesn't do that in Safari.. however, I am still getting the ???s in Safari..

hmm..

 

[mad jew]

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?

 

[iMeowbot]

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.

 

[macadd1ct]

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?

kept the template font exactly as it came.. uploaded to a folder.. dragged the contents of the folder to fetch..
question marks everywhere..

http://www.users.tpg.com.au/toddles_/

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.

no.. just typed over the text that was in the template..
could it be the ftp program?

 

[yoda13]

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...

 

[iMeowbot]

no.. just typed over the text that was in the template..
could it be the ftp program?

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.

 

[macadd1ct]

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.

Thanks everyone.. perhaps I should stick to dreamweaver?

 

[iMeowbot]

Thanks everyone.. perhaps I should stick to dreamweaver?

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?

 

[smcswitcher]

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