I don't see the problem. I even looked at the Monastery Gates while not logged in so that I saw the cached copy and the quotes you mention all show normal for me in every case I tried.

You don't mention the browser you are using but I've seen bugs with Mozilla wanting to do everything in UTF-8 and so making mistakes when given a Latin-1 page like those that PM produces.

One of my favorite tools is: 

perl -S GET -SueUs "http://perlmonks.org/?node=..."

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which you might want to try (requires that you have the LWP bundle installed, which is a pretty useful thing to have). If you replace -SueUs with -SuedUs, then you get *just* the headers, no page contents.

That command will show you the raw page contents and the headers so you can verify whether UTF-8 characters are being sent and whether headers say Latin-1.

When I do that without the "?node=..." part I get the follow bits: 

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
...
Title: Perl Monks - The Monastery Gates
...
When he asks “How can I be more careful?”, We usually 
...
but haven’t even heard of CPAN.

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Which includes three slanted quotes as single-byte characters (Latin-1 not UTF-8) which matches the headers.

So I don't see the problem in my browser (IE5) and I don't see it when I bypass my browser. You may have found a bug in your browser.

                - tye

In reply to Re: ISO-Latin-1 as node and UTF-8 in frontpage (not for me) by tye
in thread ISO-Latin-1 as node and UTF-8 in frontpage by bart

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