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Thank you both for your responses. <br />
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I can't replicate the problem and therefore cannot test your solutions. The problem started when I changed meta data in header:<br />
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was: &nbsp;charset=ISO-8859-1<br />
now: &nbsp;charset=utf-8<br />
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Text that was already in database from one of my users started displaying on web page with ? instead of &quot;&quot;&nbsp;and ''. When I copy that same text from database and re-upload it to new row in DB. and then display on new web page, the quotes display like non-computer (made for paper) quotes, that is, they look just fine (displayed at a slant instead of replaced with a question mark), and would print on paper well, which is what word perfect is designed for - as you know computer quotes display vertically instead of a slant.<br />
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I created slanted quotes in wordperfect and upload and they display just fine.<br />
I am starting to wonder if there is no problem. Maybe only text that was uploaded during when charset=ISO-8859-1 was in charge will display with ?. But now that charset=utf-8 is in charge, any <u>NEW</u> uploads of old style made for paper quotes from wordperfect for example, will be formatted upon upload and display just fine.<br />
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Ray, I tested your test characters, and they display just fine.<br />
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'Françoise'<br />
, 'Å-Ring'<br />
, 'ßeta or Beta?'<br />
, 'Öh löök, umlauts!'<br />
, 'ENCYCLOPÆDIA'<br />
, 'ça va! mon élève mi niña?'<br />
, 'A stealthy ƒart'<br />
, 'Ðe lónlí blú bojs'
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I copied the problem text from one column to another and it displays bad. I copy that same problem text to an upload form and then display it and it displays good. It looks like anything uploaded from this point on using utf-8 will display good, there fore problem solved. Thanks for your help.
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When I copy text from wordperfect the single and double quotes don't display properly. I know there is a setting in wordperfect for the world wide web that will fix this, but not everyone who uploads to my site is going to change that setting.<br />
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I recently changed the meta tag which caused this trouble.<br />
was: &nbsp;charset=ISO-8859-1<br />
now: &nbsp;charset=utf-8<br />
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Is there a common fix for this? thanks.
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When I copy text from wordperfect the single and double quotes don't display properly. I know there is a setting in wordperfect for the world wide web that will fix this, but not everyone who uploads to my site is going to change that setting.

I recently changed the meta tag which caused this trouble.
was:  charset=ISO-8859-1
now:  charset=utf-8

Is there a common fix for this? thanks.

qoutes don't display correctly on page after change to  charset=utf-8

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