zex20913
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When viewing a thread beginning with "" marks, the FireFox tab displays "& q u o t" squished together, instead of just " " ".

I thought it deserved a mention.

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[Last edited by zex20913 at 04-26-2007 12:36 PM : Didn't even notice the change, 'til mentioned later.]

NiroZ
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Well in firefox, this thread is called "Medicore&... in the browsers title.

TripleM
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I don't think thats a site-specific bug, its more of a general internet problem.
A little googling told me:

Even when the text of a document is correctly displayed, its title, if it contains encoding-specific characters, may appear broken in the window title bar (apparently because the font used in window title bars is determined by the operating system, which may be completely unaware of the encoding of the document).

(thus it happens in IE too).

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TripleM wrote:
I don't think thats a site-specific bug, its more of a general internet problem.
A little googling told me:

Even when the text of a document is correctly displayed, its title, if it contains encoding-specific characters, may appear broken in the window title bar (apparently because the font used in window title bars is determined by the operating system, which may be completely unaware of the encoding of the document).

(thus it happens in IE too).

Indeed - the title of that thread in IE (at least for me) is displayed with everyone's favourite """ in place of an actual quote...

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TripleM
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Oh, so now I get it. So, everybody, typing '& q u o t' into your post will actually write a quote. No wonder it took me a while to work out what Zex was talking about..

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TripleM wrote:
Oh, so now I get it. So, everybody, typing '& q u o t' into your post will actually write a quote. No wonder it took me a while to work out what Zex was talking about..

Haha - yes. I even typed that too, and didn't notice that it changed it for me...!

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Kevin_P86 wrote:

TripleM wrote:
Oh, so now I get it. So, everybody, typing '& q u o t' into your post will actually write a quote. No wonder it took me a while to work out what Zex was talking about..

Haha - yes. I even typed that too, and didn't notice that it changed it for me...!

You might want to write that as &amp;quot; to get it to actually show &quot;...

Oh, and after previewing be sure to hit your browser's back button, as you'll get an extra level of escaping removed every time you hit preview...

EDIT: Also, editing is tricky...

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[Last edited by Briareos at 04-26-2007 08:35 AM]