Errant question mark.

Question

On one of my sites I have a very simple page
http://www.cydelia.org.au/Management.htm),
which is supposed to display the
following lines:
"For further information contact the Secretary at:
[email protected]"
the code to do this is:
<p>For further information contact the Secretary
at:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong><span
class="c_r2">[email protected]</span></strong></p>
</blockquote>
The page worked correctly in preview mode, and when displayed
with IE from my
hard disk, but when I displayed the remote version the second
line was followed
by a question mark on the following line. There was no
visible cause for this
in either code or design view, but when I cut and pasted the
lines into Word to
compose this message, the final </blockquote> was
preceded by a little degree
sign (which does not show in Agents composition window).
This unknown character was totally invisible in Dreamweaver,
but when I deleted
all the spaces and then put them back, the question mark
disappeared.
Anyone have any suggestions as to what this character might
have been, or how to
detect similar unwanted characters before they get uploaded
to the server?
Clancy

Answer 1

I have recently had a very curious problem cutting and
pasting from Word.
The problem was spaces that caused gaps on the screen. In
other words, I
would expect this content -
<p>This is a test</p>
and this content -
<p>This is a test</p>
to appear exactly the same on a webbrowser. But in this case,
they did not.
I suspect that the copy from Word created some non-printing
character (Not
ASCII(20)) to be placed there.
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"Clancy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "gareth" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Never cut and paste from word, as word uses hidden
formatting which gets
>>copied as well, and can cause problems. If you need
to edit in word, copy
>>and paste into a plain text text editor like notepad,
so that the
>>formatting
>>gets lost, and then copy and paste from there into
Dreamweaver.
>
> Unfortunately I'm not a particularly good typist, and I
suffer somewhat
> from
> RSI, so I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech processing
software. This
> only
> really works with Word, and is particularly incompatible
with Dreamweaver.
>
> Generally importing directly from Word into Dreamweaver
works perfectly
> satisfactorily, apart from a tendency to insert spaces
in front of
> punctuation
> marks. This is the first time I have encountered this
particular problem.
> I
> have no idea what the errant character was, and have
replaced the faulty
> file,
> so now cannot find out. However it was interesting that
although the
> source
> code (as displayed by 'View code') was identical, the
question mark showed
> up if
> the file had been downloaded from the server, but not if
it had been
> loaded from
> my own hard disk. (And I did change the file slightly
and upload it
> again,
> without changing the behaviour, to check that it really
was the same
> file.)
>
>
> Clancy