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

[Bruce Bales]

On Sunday 14 October 2007 23:02, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 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
Thanks, anyway, Daniel.  It's not a terribly important problem, but a 
minor inconvenience.  I'll live with it.
bruce