Ruby on Rails Tuesday, May 31, 2011

On May 31, 9:41 am, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > Is it a problem if some articles were already cleaned by doing a
> > search and replace, e.g. swapping all ’ for its corresponding proper
> > symbol?
>
> Depends. if you have replaced with pure ascii then it's not a problem.
> if not (ie for a given column and table you have a mix of encodings)
> then you will have made things worse.

Oh... thank you for answering me! Basically, some people ran search-
and-replaces for these:

"| replaced with :
â€" replaced with -
’ replaced with '
“ replaced with "
†replaced with "

I apologize for my lack of expertise, but have things been replaced
"with pure ascii"? (What exactly is that...?)

One other thing:
Does the encoding or interpretation of encoding vary from browser to
browser? See, I went to school and checked out the site - only to
find this odd symbol located after double-quotes... it looked like two
squares on top of each other...
Yet, at home, or outside of school, I do not see this symbol anywhere.
Why might this be?

(Thank you again!)

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