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DRT
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WTF is ' ?

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I was given a new laptop recently and have noticed that on many websites (viewed with IE6) apostrophes are displayed as "'"

Is there something I can change in the browser settings to fix this?
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Some googling reveals that this is an IE bug. Apparently ' is used in XML code to generate an apostrophe but IE does not recognise it as such.

This seems to be a similar phenomenon to the problem with the term "Pink Port" and traditional port drinkers :lol:
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IE: security nightmare. Use Firefox with NoScript. Always.
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