URGENT! I write my stories and when they get posted up on blogs, they have all these question marks everywhere and other computer sign. Do you know why that happens? (and please don't answer if you're just going to say, 'no'.) And how can I stop it?
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ArchieandJughead
ANSWERS: 5
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according to wikipedia: Mojibake is the phenomenon of incorrect, unreadable characters (garbage characters) shown when computer software fails to render a text correctly according to its associated character encoding. Mojibake is often caused by forced display of writing systems or character encodings that are "foreign" to the user's computer system: if a computer does not have the software required to process a foreign language's characters, it will attempt to process them in its default language encoding, usually resulting in gibberish. Messages transferred between different encodings of the same language can also have mojibake problems.
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Your computer is copying some kind of hidden coding that the blog cannot comprehend. My recommendation is to copy and paste the text into a blank text document, then copy and paste to the blog.
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Your word processing program is using hidden symbols to direct it's postscript incoding for use by printers. You can strip it of these charcters by setting your format to plain text. Or One easy way to strip a text file is to cut and paste it into Notepad and then cut and paste it from there into your blog. Some editing my be required to format paragraghs afterwards.
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Change to a more standard font like Times New Roman. The program that your blog is displayed in doesn't recognise certain characters so it replaces them with the question marks.
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Eh... Old question, but I'll answer for new users: Those question marks are most-likely apostrophes, and other non-letter/number characters (and some punctuation). They happen when one program (your word processor) uses uses a certain character that another (your blog) can't. You would probably get the same effect by cutting/copying the piece from your word processor to a text editor like Notepad. (It replaces those characters it doesn't understand with the question mark. SOME will be replaced with an escape sequence like many of us get from AB: "These aren’t exact duplicates".) Best bet would be to USE notepad or your blog template to create your blog. You MIGHT be able to by changing the format of your work processing doc to text.
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