I've been experimenting today and I found htat if I open the documents in Notepad and save as unicode then when I open it back up in Wordpad all the funky formatting is gone.
I've also found that I need to manually select UTF-8 in Microsoft Word to get the text back to what it should look like. I don't know why from the Browser it's view in UTF-8 then when I save the story it appears to be saving it as Western ISO (8859-1)
I've gone to my Firefox Font settings and set it to UTF-8 but it doesn't appear to work for the entire browser, just the page you're on.
This whole thing is rather puzzling because it only happens on a few pages. So I'm not sure if it's how the author had posted the stories that made it so that the default is Western ISO (8859-1) or something is going wrong in my browser, wordpad, and microsoft word. Or if ?format=light automatically puts everything in Western ISO (8859-1) and if so how do you fix that? Normally on LJ ?style=mine would prevent the weird coding from happening but on Dreamwidth that doesn't appear to be the case. But again not on all stories being posted via DW.
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I've also found that I need to manually select UTF-8 in Microsoft Word to get the text back to what it should look like. I don't know why from the Browser it's view in UTF-8 then when I save the story it appears to be saving it as Western ISO (8859-1)
I've gone to my Firefox Font settings and set it to UTF-8 but it doesn't appear to work for the entire browser, just the page you're on.
This whole thing is rather puzzling because it only happens on a few pages. So I'm not sure if it's how the author had posted the stories that made it so that the default is Western ISO (8859-1) or something is going wrong in my browser, wordpad, and microsoft word. Or if ?format=light automatically puts everything in Western ISO (8859-1) and if so how do you fix that? Normally on LJ ?style=mine would prevent the weird coding from happening but on Dreamwidth that doesn't appear to be the case. But again not on all stories being posted via DW.