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get rid of those annoying little question mark diamonds

For as long as I can remember I have been fighting a losing battle with these annoying/ugly little question marks...

These shitty little 'glyphs' are used by browsers when the symbol that needs to be rendered doesn't exist in the HTML character set you are using. It's a big problem when you have users who are publishing content via a CMS and are pasting stuff in directly from Microsoft Word or something Word-like.

I recently discovered a way to get rid of the question marks and allow the maximum range of HTML characters, simply by changing the content-type charset to iso-8859-1...

January 12, 2010 [11:21]
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