På Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 07:55:08AM +0100, Magnus Therning skrev:
> Mark Grieveson wrote:
> > Hello. On some pages, quotation marks and apostrophes are not rendered
> > with Epiphany browser on my computer. Most frequently this occurs on
> > large sites which use a content management system of some sort. For
> > example, the Toronto Star's site, at www.thestar.com. The cover-page is
> > fine, but links to the various stories are not properly displayed by
> > Epiphany. I use Epiphany version 2.14.2.1, on Etch.
> >
> > Is there a way to correct this? A package I could install, or
> > something? Note, these pages display fine on Firefox, but I prefer
> > Epiphany.
>
> Now that you point it out I see the problem too when using Epiphany
> 2.14.3 (Sid). There are some "UTF" like codes which are displayed. The
> codes change to "normal" characters when the Text Encoding is changed to
> "Western (Windows-1252)" from the one detected by default - Western
> (ISO-8859-1).
I guess the characters are U+0091 (PRIVATE USE 1) and U+0092 (PRIVATE USE
2), which are used in the cp-12523 (windows) character set to encode curly
opening and closing quote characters. These characters are not compatible
with iso8859-1 (nor UTF-8).
The correct fix would be to convince the document authors to use either
entities (‘ and ’) or the correct quote characters (refer to the
unicode charts for the exact character; I'm too lazy to check this right
now).
Since that is not going to work perhaps a simple 'replace U+0091 and U+0092
with real quote characters' fix could be implemented in Gecko or Epiphany.
mvrgr, Wouter
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