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TheLugal
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Posted on 28-09-08 14:16

How come that I see some of the words in the articles like this: The Beginnerâ€™s guide.

The above example is from "The beginners guide" at [url]http://www.hellboundhackers.org/articles/478-a-beginner-39;s-guide.html[/url]

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reaper4334
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Posted on 28-09-08 14:59

Notice that it's

"A Beginner's Guide"
not
"A Beginners Guide"

The symbols and stuff are supposed to be a '

Happens in lots of the older articles.

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Posted on 28-09-08 16:04

It's because those characters are not represented by HTML entities or Unicode characters. They don't display correctly until you replace them with the entity or Unicode character that displays them (’ for a right-facing single quote or – for a hyphen, in entity and Unicode forms, respectively). There are lots of nice lists of these, so feel free to bookmark a good one if you ever plan to do any web content.

I still check PMs from time to time.

Our responses were moronic, why shouldn't he follow suit? - Futility

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ynori7
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Posted on 28-09-08 20:34

I've also noticed that the word 'expression' in all of my articles gets shown with <i></i> tags in the middle. I'm guessing that it's to prevent someone trying to use the xss expression funtion? I dont see why that would be a problem though since articles have to be approved before they get posted anyway.