I am using simple Unicode characters in my HTML file,Firefox and IE are fine with it but Chrome wont render it. Is there a way this issue can be fixed keeping various end users in mind?
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The U+2028 LSEP character keeps showing up around my wordpress site. Through the inspector, I can see that it is a locally rendered font such as Helvetica or Times New Roman (from what I've seen). It does not show up on all browsers however, I've seen some browsers not display this character.
I've found this Why is this symbol showing up on Chrome and not Firefox or Edge? however it hasn't really helped in removing the character from my site.
Is there a way to remove or disable the rendering of this character? While they dont show up on some computers, they still leave a blank space similar to a tag, and it screws with the structure of the site.
I was accessing this page: http://protege.stanford.edu/publications/ontology_development/ontology101-noy-mcguinness.html when I saw that my browsers (Safari and Chrome) don't display some characters properly (Prot�g� when it's supposed to be Protégé).
I think it's because the content was not sent with UTF-8 encoding, but Chrome and Safari default to UTF-8 when the encoding is not mentioned in the HTML page (in <meta> tag).
I tried saving the page through Safari (it doesn't work through Chrome) in Sublime Text 2 and tell it to "Save with Encoding" UTF-8, and I can see that it's displaying correctly, but I don't know the original encoding used.
Obviously I don't have control on that website, and so I cannot change the content send. So I think I need to tell my browser to use specific encoding used when the server encoded that page.
So I have two questions:
What encoding is used on that page to display the page properly?
How can I tell Chrome or Safari to use that encoding?
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I apologize for my hasty answer.
In Chrome, you can override the encoding by going to Menu > More Tools > Encoding. I tested the page you linked to with "Western (Windows 1252)" and it looked just fine after that.
Here's a useful link to this end: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95290?hl=en
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You have to declare the encoding for the page. See: http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/web/tips/declare.html
I have a really strange behaviour in Safari. The problem is that I have a string (inside an tag) which has one part of it written in cyrillic (Bulgarian) and the other part written in latin (English).
On all the desktop browsers I have, it's all working good and there are no problems at all. Then I took my iPhone, and I noticed a surprise: part of the sentence is bold (as it should be according to the CSS), and part is normal.
You can see this weird behaviour here:
http://www.buderus-bg.com/bultherm/product/10
What can it be? And why I get this problem only on iOS?
The charset of the website UTF-8. And that field in the database is a utf8_general_ci.
You are trying to display the text using a font that doesn't contain Cyrillic characters (Google's Open Sans with subset=latin), so the browser will need to find a different font to display the Cyrillic text.
Solution: remove the subset=latin bit.
Edit: the fact that it happens only in iOS with Safari is a coincidence. The browser searches for a font that can display the Cyrillic characters, and what it finds is sufficiently different from Open Sans that you can see the difference in thickness. On my desktop machine, I see the difference too.
We have a search results page that worked fine but now, when viewed in IE9 it's forced into compatibility mode and breaks the layout (we don't support IE <9).
Some poking around seems to point to the opening < of the doctype being converted to an invalid unicode character, which is causing the IE grief. Why is this and what to do about it? I am at my wit's end here.
The rest of the site is fine, and this problem is only in IE. Firefox, Chrome, Safari all ok.
http://www.finecooking.com/search?cx=009096020989677304441%3Akkzh0x3f3yc&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=chicken
(you can also just search for anything)
It turned out one of the team members saved one of the includes for this page as UTF-8 WITH BOM, the BOM is that rogue character that broke the page. Resaving the file with no BOM fixed everything.
I can't tell you how many includes we had to check.
For the last couple of days my browser Chrome and then Firefox after I downloaded it (importing things from Chrome may have cause the problem there) have been displaying text improperly. I get ? in diamonds in place of some characters (symbols in other languages sometimes, commas and other symbols other times.) Also some text in CSS pages gets replaced E, these Es also show up on in links. Those links seem to display as HTML codes rather than links.
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd150/ErikoKatsuragi/problem1_zpsca93c38a.jpg
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd150/ErikoKatsuragi/problem2_zps67fe9865.jpg
I would later check internet explorer to find that these problems aren't there. My Browsers are displaying in Unicode. Is there anyway I can fix this myself or should I find a professional?
Uninstall and then again Re-install your browsers!!