The installation of firefox is fine.
Since I am editing the text in question, there is no URL to post.
The ellipses are part of the text in question and cannot be edited. I
hope
this is clearer than the original post.
I believe that if a pc has memory issues then those black diamonds will
appear, because today there aren't any black diamonds on the very same
page.
When I posted I had quite a few instances of 4 browsers open on the pc in
question (in addition to several other It's odd that the rendering engine
slips up on ellipses since they're fundamental grammatical devices. And I
don't think there's an alternate way to depict them in html, or is there?
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "ergo_sum" <collegiate@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> I'm editing a translation
>
> As usual, posting the URL (perhaps after uploading the do***ent, if it's
> not on the web yet) would help All to help you.
>
>> I've come across an odd problem; it only
>> occurs in Firefox. All ellipses (...) and accented vowels (á,é, etc)
>> appear as small black diamonds with question marks ON THE BROWSER.
>
> It might be a problem in your installation of Firefox.
>
>> Clearly this is unacceptable. I've briefly checked the source and
>> found the accented vowels also appear accented. I believe the correct
>> way to signify accents is as follows:
>>
>> á = á
>> Á = Á
>
> It is _a_ correct way in HTML. There is in general no reason to use the
> entity references, when you correctly specify the character encoding, as
> you should.
>
> But which way have you used?
>
>> However, the ellipses (...) are part of the text,
>
> I cannot decipher this statement.
>
> P.S. Please do not start a Subject with "re: ", since "Re: " by
convention
> indicates a followup article in Usenet.
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