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Joe Redifer
02-28-2008, 07:42 PM
I was looking over my Side by Side of Lords of Thunder (http://www.sega-16.com/feature_page.php?id=3&title=Side%20by%20Side:%20Lords%20of%20Thunder%20( Genesis%20vs.%20TG-16%20CD)) since I am extraordinarily vain and I noticed that what should be "Thunder" is displayed as “Thunder†instead (first paragraph). The weird characters replaced the quotation marks. WTF?

EDIT: Actually it is ALL apostrophe's and quotation marks that are messed up. I've noticed this usually happens on old web pages. Why? Does it happen somehow during a server move or a site upgrade? Why are apostrophes and quotation marks racially discriminated against?
Genesis Knight
02-28-2008, 08:04 PM
From my experience, that happens when you mix Word documents and Dreamweaver. Word uses 'special' apostrophes and quotation marks - same thing happens with ellipses. Word turns your normal '...' into a special character, and those special characters always show up like '“' and crap. That's why I have a Firefox plugin that allows me to copy stuff as plain text, to avoid this problem.
Joe Redifer
02-28-2008, 08:18 PM
But it wasn't like this when the article was originally posted.

Dreamweaver = eww.
VinnyT
02-28-2008, 08:35 PM
We should hire someone to hit EVERY article and review and fix it one by one.
Melf
02-28-2008, 08:40 PM
But it wasn't like this when the article was originally posted.

Dreamweaver = eww.

It's not Dreamweaver. It's a side effect of copying almost a thousand articles onto the data base. I've fixed most of them, but some still remain. Let me know when you run into any so I can fix them.
Genesis Knight
02-28-2008, 09:45 PM
What's wrong with Dreamweaver?
Joe Redifer
02-28-2008, 09:57 PM
I'm a "code by hand/anti-bloat" kind of guy.
Genesis Knight
02-28-2008, 10:58 PM
Ah. To each his own.
108 Stars
02-29-2008, 03:39 AM
Many of the old links to features don´t work anymore either.
megabomberman
03-02-2008, 12:49 PM
Joe when is your next feature or review due? I'm a big fan of your work.....
Joe Redifer
03-02-2008, 06:38 PM
I haven't been thinking of any ideas lately. I'm busy working on a personal animation video project now.
TmEE
03-03-2008, 01:31 AM
what happaneded to this porn tests on various consoles that you can use to browse net ?
Joe Redifer
03-03-2008, 01:51 AM
I will post a link to that in INSERT COIN section.