Re: an odd browser problem: Firefox

"ergo_sum" <collegiate@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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.
>
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> I believe that if a pc has memory issues

or font 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?
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> "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "ergo_sum" <collegiate@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>> 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:
>>>
>>> &aacute; = á
>>> &Aacute; = 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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