[Opera-Linux] Can't get a proper quote mark

[Daniel Pittman]

Bruce Bales <bbales at cox.net> writes:
> On Sunday 14 October 2007 01:54, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> Bruce Bales <bbales at cox.net> writes:
>> > Hello, All,
>> >
>> > I'm using Opera 9.23 and one internet page I am trying to read
>> > seems to have some punctuation marks which can't be properly
>> > rendered.

[...]

> Thanks, Daniel.  Yes, that was stupid of me to not include the url.  
> it is http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/chapter-one/
>
> I tried the utf-8 and windows-1252 encoding and then a bunch of 
> others.  It's obviously trying to encode a single quote.  

Yeah, specifically it looks to be representing a UTF-8 "smart" or
typographic single quote as a sequence of standard 8-bit bytes.

I suspect the problem is actually deeper inside the system but,
annoyingly, the site blocks any attempt to fetch content outside a
"normal" web browser so I can't see the raw bytes trivially. :/

Sorry, beyond this point I can't assist -- I think their software has
broken UTF-8 content on input and then correctly represented the three
individual bytes as individual UTF-8 characters on output, but I can't
be sure.

Regards,
        Daniel
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