#5 The front page has a high-ASCII character that doesn't render on Windows - MLKSHK

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#5 ✓resolved

The front page has a high-ASCII character that doesn't render on Windows

Reported by maschnitz (at yahoo) | January 4th, 2011 @ 11:44 PM

The "Save, Share, and Discover" front page has one of those characters that don't render correctly on FF, Win 7. It looks like an o with an accent mark.

It's the character between "gross ones" and "then share" in "The silly ones, the sweet ones, the cool ones, and the gross ones—then share them with your friends and family".

I imagine an em or en dash was intended. I suggest using an HTML entity instead.

Admittedly, this is a pet peeve. Something in OSX-land lately has been causing this more and more lately, on the Web at large.

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maschnitz (at yahoo) January 4th, 2011 @ 11:45 PM
aside: Lighthouse is full of these fun characters. All the smart quotes look like i's with hats.
Andre Torrez January 5th, 2011 @ 02:44 PM
It is an entity. See attached screenshot of source.

Is there another reason it might be mis-interpreted on your browser? We're looking at it on our virtual machines and it renders correctly.
- screen-shot-2011-01-05-at-24333-pm.png 9.7 KB
Andre Torrez January 5th, 2011 @ 03:36 PM
- State changed from “new” to “open”
It appears this might be an issue with the actual Windows version of Helvetica Neue. Moving this to open.
Andre Torrez February 27th, 2011 @ 03:50 PM
- State changed from “open” to “resolved”
Closing this since we are working on a new page and this won't be relevant (we hope!)

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