Hi everyone! I’m new to the forum, and of course building web pages. I have just started using the book ‘Build your own website, the right way’.
My question may have already been answered but i couldn’t seem to find anything i understood in search.
When i open my webpage in safari (i use a mac) all my apostrophes (') show as ’. any ideas why and how i can fix this? very simple answers please as i have no idea what I’m doing lol.
Thanks, Steph
What editor are you using? Depends on your charset probably. Is it UTF-8?
Hi mate, thanks for the response. I’ve just changed everything to UTF-8, browser, text editor and all that. it seems to be working now 
Glad it worked. I would check all your other pages as well. I think you’d have to go in and change it to UTF-8 as well for those pages.
Either way, you’re welcome.
Yes, you want to use a “plain textt” editor. I find UTF-8 - without the BOM - works the best.
When I first started I didn’t understand that Word was primarily for print documents where “fancy quotes” look fine and had a devil of a time getting pages to work. Once I switched to Notepad I was on my way. I have sinced moved to Notepad++, not as feature rich as some editors but as I was used to Notepad it meets my needs ATM
I’m using Text Editor on my mac. I changed it to plain text too now 
thanks guys
I went through the same struggles as you Mitt. Debugging those nasty quotes took so long since the pages basically were working…
I told my current job that I solely worked in Notepad and they laughed. Switched to Notepad++ though recently basically for the code indentation. Such a nice feature.
In the code you can use & #39; to show my apostrophes. Of course, the & and the # would not have a space between, but if I post it altogether here it actually shows the apostrophe, hence '.
Not if you enclose in backticks (inline pre)
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I’ll give it a go then guys, thanks very much for that