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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>dread questionmark disease</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dread-high-bit-disease.html" title="dread high-bit disease"/><link rel="next" href="DRECNET.html" title="DRECNET"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">dread questionmark disease</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dread-high-bit-disease.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="DRECNET.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="dread-questionmark-disease"/><dt xmlns="" id="dread-questionmark-disease"><b>dread questionmark disease</b></dt></dt><dd><p> <span class="grammar">n.</span> The result of saving HTML
from Microsoft Word or some other program that uses the nonstandard
Microsoft variant of Latin-1; the symptom is that various of those
nonstandard characters in positions 128-160 show up as questionmarks. The
usual culprit is the misnamed &#8216;smart quotes&#8217; feature in
Microsoft Word. For more details (and a program called
<span class="application">demoroniser</span> that cleans up the mess) see <a href="http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/" target="_top">http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/</a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dread-high-bit-disease.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="DRECNET.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dread high-bit disease </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> DRECNET</td></tr></table></div></body></html>