[FX.php List] Bad apostrophe character confounds FMP

Mon Dec 10 14:49:23 MST 2007

Well, when fixing it you need to quit the browser and relaunching it,
and make sure the cache is cleared for the encoding to take effect.

ggt

2007/12/10, Kevin Futter <kfutter at sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au>:
> On 11/12/07 8:31 AM, "Troy Meyers" <tcmeyers at troymeyers.com> wrote:
>
> > Jonathan,
> >
> > A couple of things...
> >
> > (1) Is the PHP file saved as UTF-8, no BOM as I described for BBEdit?
> >
> >
> > (2) You've got HTML content...
> >
> > <br><BR>ON PAGE LOAD:<br>Query error: 0<br>Query count: 1<br>
> >
> > ...BEFORE even the DOCTYPE is declared. That should come after, in the <BODY>
> > portion. I guess it's possible that's confusing the browser since it has to
> > deal with characters before the encoding and DOCTYPE is declared.
> >
> > Just guess, try to rearrange it?
> >
> > -Troy
>
> The DOCTYPE declaration should definitely be the first thing on the page;
> even preceding whitespace can confuse certain browsers under certain
> conditions. Anything preceding the DOCTYPE declaration invalidates the page
> (from a web standards point-of-view), but this doesn't directly affect the
> unicode issue. Most browsers will switch to quirks mode under those
> conditions, and then all bets are off as to how they handle things.
>
> It may not solve your current problem Jonathon, but it's definitely
> something you need to address to build a standards-compliant page.
>
> --
> Kevin Futter
> Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
> http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/
>
>
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