Technical question

Yesterday, I posted a critique of the POW using the Ms Word "cut &

paste" routine. Naturally enough, the apostrophes and inverted

commas have been replaced by question-marks. Interestingly, this

only appears when I access my forum posting through the posting

history on my workspace. If I access the POW from the PNet home

page, the text appears as it was typeset with the apostrophes and

inverted commas intact. Why is it so? I don't understand why the

same text responds differently. Should I be selecting the HTML option

under the text box? Your explanations and advice will be greatly

appreciated.

ask Brian! i guess the oracle database is not set for multilingualism.

Thanks, Fernando. For some reason, I expected Brian to chime in on this one.

I don't understand why this happens either, else I would fix it. The Oracle database supports multinational characters and we put the right content-type on the pages, but often they get garbled.

and so he did! Brian i wish i could know a bit more of databases then i'll be able to help a little

i know mysql, but ORACLE IS ANOTHER THING

It's a bit "like rubbing the lamp" and the Genie appears. Thanks, Brian. If you get it sorted sometime, I'd love to hear the details. Thanks Fernando, for your input too.