A website I am updating keeps putting strange charactors when I put an apostrophe or

Any ideas how to stop them.

Edit
This is how it displays even though I do not add the additional charactors in the editor

Fee of £100

client’s individual

Leo has the answer - which is bit complicated

Declare the character encoding in your HTML header, Jeffie. For instance:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

Clever Hiltops

That worked a treat

Cheers

Smarty pants :-)

skinny: I expect she has ;-)

Probably Agent Provacateur.;-)

Not a great lover of Smarty pants, but I don't mind the sugar candy ones from time to time.

Oh my God!

Alright if you need a nibble! :-)

If we've all recovered from Hil's pants, I offer this to those who may be having problems with their hard drive.

It seems that a failing hard drive, if chilled in a fridge or freezer, can be recussitated long enough to recover data.

http://www.kempa.com/2006/10/02/adam-is-there-a-reason-your-laptop-is-in-the-fridge/

How can I identify a powerful powered usb hub.

It is for my photographic pc so I need seven or eight sockets.

My old one died and I got the most expensive one (around 22) that my local Maplin had in stock. I now get repeated 'your usb device is faulty' messages and one of my usb hard drive disconnects itself from time to time - but works fine when powered down and up again.

My instinct is that the only thing that is powered on the jobbie I have just bought are the little lights. Googling does not seem to produce much real info about how these things perform.

Any pointers, chums?

TP

TP: I have never had a happy time running a USB hard drive through an external powered hub.

Many of these hubs have brand names you've never heard before. The last one I had seemed to be for gaming machines and had more little coloured LEDs than you could shake a stick at. It didn't work properly, failed completely after about a month, but enhanced the Christmas decorations for a while.

The one I'm using now is called a 'Link-it' and came in a package branded Belkin (of whom at least I had heard). It works well, but the USB disk will still only work reliably when connected directly to the laptop's USBs.

What is the power rating of the power supply for your hub?

MM

Thanks MM,

According to the Maplin spec " Supplied PSU is 5 volt @ 3.8A" I'll double check that when I'm next in my studio.

It seems daft that nobody wants to market a properly amplified one. If you run a PC to support photography you need ports for masses of peripherals (including hard drives that fill all too quickly) and no tower unit is ever going to be built with enough sockets. So this makes a mockery of the 127 USB devices Windows can support!

EDIT. Yes, I have checked and that is the power supply. The comic thing is that all the lights, including the red power light, remain on when I remove the adaptor to read the spec!!

TP

Something odd is happening on my monitor, which is hard to describe. The picture appears to surge forward, as though it is going to switch off, and then resumes a normal display. Is this the gypsy's warning that something is about to fail? I've also experienced a couple of instances of Blue Screen of Death just after boot up. Help please. TIA TOK

Is there a loose video card in your PC? Or is the video supply on the motherboard? Either way, I'd suggest you try the monitor on another PC, but I'd strongly suspect your PC. Have you dusted out the PC recently - if you get an accumulation of dust it can melt the processor, which may be related to the blue screen problem you mention.

Thanks SC. We are a one PC household so option one does not apply. The PC was in a repair shop earlier in the year having a new power supply fitted. I think I'll let them have a look at it.

Take the case cover off and blow to clear the dust. Or, take your monitor round to a friend's house & try it.

TP: Sounds like a fairly meaty power supply, sufficient to power all 7 ports - but maybe it has failed. The USB hub will remain powered from the computer if its own supply is removed - hence the lights stay on.

However, a single USB port has a maximum output rating of 500mA which means that the hub would only support a maximum of 500mA across all its ports if the external supply fails. To diagnose, try disconnecting the hub from the computer, connect the hub's external supply, then see if the lights stay on.

Sorry to butt-in.
- - - - Is this monitor a CRT (old, bulky, gets hot)...?

Can you describe the fault again; er, more precisely if pos.



Earlier Q. re USB
- I think you're unlucky as I have a variety of usb HDD bits connected from time to time (Dell Desktop abt 10yrs old). However there is a "limit" on the data/power you can take, are you sure the ext-PSU really is doing the work? Your explanation of the PSU-lights is a tad confusing to me....if you switch off (don't withdraw the plug-in) the ext supply then the USB-device should stop working, is my understanding. Only if you pull the DC-connector, will the periperal draw current from yr PC.
However there is a limit and for hungry periperals, like HDD's, DVD-writers, etc an external PSU is better. If you buy a external case (to put a HDD inside) then it should come with a 5v/12v PSU but maybe your set-up is different.
Good Luck.

PS
-that "127-USB devices" that Win-supports is a theoretical limit I'm guessinig. But even the latest USB-spec will be slowed down. Modern PC's also have eSATA connections ( That's external SATA), which are intended for HDD's and are more robust than plain SATA which are rumoured to break easily, just when you're busy!).
I guess you may need to fit an additional card (easy in a desktop tower) for USB and eSata support, this will provide greater certainty. So far for non-pro use I've avoided SATA drives, since EIDE are sill available cheaper. HDD, if looked after are about the most-reliable safe-option for storing your pics - - - IMHO.
I don't store them on the C-drive as it's so tiny . . . . all my stuff is external, either USB=pen-sticks for letters, or HDD's for photos, as copy of a CD. That way I can burn a replacement, should it be needed.