cut'n paste problem with characterset

I'm having trouble cut'n pasting items off some news sites

When pasted often things like Quotations marks and apostrophe's come out
replaced with question marks.I'm mostly pasting from IE but I have the same
problem with Firefox.

"We will play the matches at a neutral venue in April this year and 75 per
cent of the proceeds will go to earth-quake victims of Pakistan and the rest
to the people affected in India," he was quoted.

will come out as this

?We will play the matches at a neutral venue in April this year and 75 per
cent of the proceeds will go to earth-quake victims of Pakistan and the rest
to the people affected in India,? he was quoted.

Does anyone have any ideas?

 

It's a character set thing. The original text contained weird characters
that aren't a straight ' or " but look like them. I see it a lot from
Mac users.

 

What are you pasting into?

Try notepad, but before you paste go file save as and change the encoding to
unicode and see if you have better luck pasting. Also change the font in
whatever you are pasting to for one with a full character set like arial. Also
check the characters you need are in the font you are pasting into.

 

I see the same thing.

a '-' (dash) is typically rendered as a '?' (question mark).

 

Does it in notepad as well. Also Notepad in win 98 hasn't got the option you
refer to.

Its Really annoying anyway, as I Cutnpaste quite a bit of news content for
my website.

 

Well that will be the problem, win98 doesnt handle unicode at the OS level, its
up to the applications to convert it, and most things dont bother.

 

Good infor thanks for that.