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Boxes in my website

by Saotbcimc
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Can anyone tell me how to eliminate these boxes in my website. I have uploaded some websites and there are these boxes everywhere I have tried to go back into my coffeecup html editor and can't seem to edit it. Someone told me it was a browser issue but im not sure. Please tell me what to do.

[] these are the boxes that are placed in my website.
#boxes #boxes in my website #help website #website #website uploading
  • Profile picture of the author jonhel
    Can you provide a URL for your web site?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
    This is a character encoding issue. Unless you're a computer scientist, explaining character encoding is really complicated... so I'll just skip it.

    Point is, your editor is saving the text in one encoding (say, UTF8), while the web server is serving the page in another (like ISO-8859-1/Latin1). And when the browser tries to interpret the stream of bits in the wrong encoding, they map to characters that don't exist in that encoding, and you get the boxes [] and question marks and stuff.

    Not sure what to recommend to fix this for a newbie, really need someone to take a look and tell you what the encodings are and where to fix it. Might take a .htaccess edit, or a settings change in your editor, or a content-type meta tag.
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    • Profile picture of the author Saotbcimc
      Thanks I might just have to use the old index file again and re-do everything, jesus christ this is so frustrating LOL.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
    Also make sure you upload your text files to the website in ASCII and not BINARY format, since that can mess up encodings too.
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