Encoding problem?

[Jeroen Vermeulen]

Christian Robottom Reis wrote:

> Carlos, Danilo, this is what the msgset looks like:
> 
>      <div id="msgset_509650_singular">This package contains toolbar-like “panels” which can be attached to the sides of your X desktop, or left “floating”. It is designed to be used in conjunction with the Gnome Desktop Environment. Many features are provided for use with the panels – including an application menu, clock, mail checker, network monitor, quick launch icons and the like.</div> 
> 
> That's quite odd -- given it's the english translation. But I'm wondering where
> the problem is!

It looks to me like non-ASCII quote characters were inserted into the 
text as UTF-8, then incorrectly interpreted (probably while editing or 
importing the translation template) as iso 8859-15 and "converted" to UTF-8.

The problem happened before the characters went into the database, so 
it's not a browser problem while viewing the page.  Some browsers may 
try to guess the right encoding for the page when they see weird data 
though, so you may not see the same characters on every browser.


Jeroen