DesigntheWorld
New Member
Okay so now I AM in a real PICKLE! and don't laugh..lol
The problem:
Everything was sort of okay with my website until....all my Japanese characters(which were once displaying fine in DW and online) started to display as this "???????" there are also little boxes showing up at the end of the English sentences and in some areas where there were spaces they have been replaced by this culprit "�" <--OMG what is that thing?!?
I also noticed that the Japanese characters have been replaced by
numbers and characters like this --> &-g-t , &-#-1-2-3-6-2-, &-#-1-2-3-8-5 (I placed dashes in between them so they could display as I seem them in the html in DW.
Info about my site:
My site has English and Japanese characters and they have been displaying fine for the past couple of weeks that I have been working on the site. It is set to utf-8.
Suspicion:
The problem seem to have occurred after I started "finding and replacing" certain codes inside of Dreamweaver...that or after I validated the site within DW...is that possible? I dunno, but it seems like a problem with how DW is displaying the characters, that or I think I pressed some strange button or something for that to happen.
What I've done so far to fix the problem:
1. I cried and then I cried some more....
2. I checked to make sure the character encoding is still utf-8 and it is.
3. I checked that the file themselves are saved correctly without BOM.
4. I reset my DW workspace to it's original settings, just incase I changed something by mistake.
5. I made sure my browsers are using the utf-8 encoding. (although it seems this problem started in DW's end, or my end)
That is all I can think of...What is going on? Anyone?
The problem:
Everything was sort of okay with my website until....all my Japanese characters(which were once displaying fine in DW and online) started to display as this "???????" there are also little boxes showing up at the end of the English sentences and in some areas where there were spaces they have been replaced by this culprit "�" <--OMG what is that thing?!?
I also noticed that the Japanese characters have been replaced by
numbers and characters like this --> &-g-t , &-#-1-2-3-6-2-, &-#-1-2-3-8-5 (I placed dashes in between them so they could display as I seem them in the html in DW.
What in the world happened? My site is a mess!
Info about my site:
My site has English and Japanese characters and they have been displaying fine for the past couple of weeks that I have been working on the site. It is set to utf-8.
Suspicion:
The problem seem to have occurred after I started "finding and replacing" certain codes inside of Dreamweaver...that or after I validated the site within DW...is that possible? I dunno, but it seems like a problem with how DW is displaying the characters, that or I think I pressed some strange button or something for that to happen.
What I've done so far to fix the problem:
1. I cried and then I cried some more....
2. I checked to make sure the character encoding is still utf-8 and it is.
3. I checked that the file themselves are saved correctly without BOM.
4. I reset my DW workspace to it's original settings, just incase I changed something by mistake.
5. I made sure my browsers are using the utf-8 encoding. (although it seems this problem started in DW's end, or my end)
That is all I can think of...What is going on? Anyone?
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