Font problems? - Post ID 72714

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This might be a system specific issue BUT...

See if you can replicate this problem I'm encountering.

I'm using the HTML editor...

I type up some text using the Century Gothic font.

I'll type " Blah balh and we're having fun fun fun"

I go to "preview" and the apostrophe comes up as a block and the hosted version shows a diamond with a question mark in it.

Any reason for this?

I'm running Vista and was aware Vista without any MS Word type programs didn't have Century Gothic installed, but I have the basic MS Works word processor and have Century Gothinc as a font.

Besides, Century Gothic is a web supported font style...




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OK....think I figured out the problem.

If I use a word processor such as MS Works or MS Word and type up the verbiage in Century Gothic, then copy and paste it into a text box in the HTML editor, the " quotes and ' apostrophes don't transfer in the same font style. I don't know what font they are but they are not Century Gothic.

I think the solution is what ever you use to type up your verbiage, copy it over and use the "font wizard" to adjust the font style.....for some reason their is a mis-communication between word processors to "clipboard" and final pasting into the HTML editor....
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Some random dude wrote:
I'll type " Blah balh and we're having fun fun fun"

I go to "preview" and the apostrophe comes up as a block and the hosted version shows a diamond with a question mark in it.

Any reason for this?


When this happened were you using the editor's default meta tag which specifies the UTF-8 encoding? If so, this is the likely cause.

Replace

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">


with

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">


Then see how it works.

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