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The article has a serious character set issue. It contains stuff like "doesnâ€™t" instead of "doesn't".

Your browser -- and my browser -- did not autodetect the character encoding correctly. Switch to Unicode (UTF-8), and it should look fine. I used Firefox.

The reason our browsers don't autodetect the character encoding as utf-8 is because that page doesn't say it's utf-8. In that case browsers are allowed to assume it's latin-1.

Actually, it did say. In line 1.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

Perhaps your browser and mine disagree on when that declaration is acceptable.

For reference, http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-encoding-d...

If you want to get pedantic about it, the content is being served as text/html (as opposed to application/xhtml+xml) which means the XML declaration isn't valid.

Well, I'd like to know why it doesn't work. If that's pedantic, so be it.

Edit: I think people took this the wrong way. I mean it's not pedantic to find the real problem. We're all better off because the poster I'm responding to showed us the real problem.

You're browser's detecting it as ISO-8859-1, not UTF-8. Do something like "View->Character Encoding->UTF-8".

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