[Nfb-web] EdSharp

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

You should write to Jamal at empower at smart.net or get him on the phone.  I
would guess there is a problem with various Unicode characters, particularly
since material saved from MS Word can have troublesome smart quotes, em
dashes, etc. in the HTML content.  Check what character set you are
declaring at the tops of your web pages, such as Windows 1252, ISO 8859-1 or
UTF-8.  One behavior of Ultraedit that we dealt with at NLS was that if the
character set was declared to be UTF-8, UltraEdit would put a "byte order
mark" at the beginning of the file, and some XML processors didn't like that
three-byte sequence.  

BTW, you are welcome to come to a Sligo Creek Chapter meeting some time.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joe Orozco
> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 7:33 PM
> To: 'NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List'
> Cc: NFB-Web
> Subject: [Nfb-web] EdSharp
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> For anyone using EdSharp, can you give me some idea why the HTML pages I
> am
> producing are occasionally replete with dagger signs and a myriad of other
> strange characters?  The occurrence seems to be random.  I am not using
> the
> HTML conversion utility that comes with the program.  Everything is by
> hand,
> and I am at a loss as to why it is happening.  I am running the most
> recent
> version and am finding myself going back to NotePad more often than I was
> hoping.  I'm going to test out Steve's UltraEdit next but thought I would
> try to figure out what could be ailing my current software.  Thanks in
> advance for any help.
> 
> Joe Orozco
>