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    Posted: 16 February 2005 at 9:54pm
Hi -
 
I was viewing the HTML source created by Web Wiz Forums and I noticed something strange with the text within the "title" tags. Specifically, something like this:
 
<title>MJ Health & Beauty Forums: Osteoporosis In&#102;ormati&#111;n</title>
 
Where it should be saying "MJ Health & Beauty Forums: Osteoporosis Information" only.
 
My questions are:
 
1) What are those strange characters? Are they the result of a "feature" of my provider? Or is it done by Web Wiz Forums (perhaps to encourage me purchase the registration code)?
 
2) Does it affect the way my pages will be indexed in Google?
 
Thanks for your help!
 
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I do not know why it would encode certain characters but it does not have anything to do with purchasing the reg code nor would it hinder google of correctly indexing you site, as google renders the page almost as a normal browser.
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Thanks for the prompt reply, Michael. I'll chase it down with my ISP. They might have something installed which manually parses title tags.... although that sounds really strange.
 
I forgot to mention, it displays correctly on my browser. I'm thinking it might be something to do with unicode or language support or something. I read this article this morning on internet.com. I don't know if there has been a patch or something for service providers for Windows Server 2000 that may have implemented this or something already.
 
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This is done by the security filters in the forum, to prevent things like XXS hacking.

Because often XXS hacks can use browser events like onClick, onLoad, onMouseOver, etc. to prevent these events from fireing the characters 'on' are HTML encoded to '&111;n'. There are also a few others.

It doesn't effect the showing of the text in a browser as they are HTML encoded.
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Hi Borg - thanks for the explanation. If that is the case then I expect it doesn't affect the way search engines would index the page.
 
In fact, I just went and plugged "In&#102;ormati&#111;n" into Google, and it came back with 1.2 billion results, all of them displaying "information". That proves it for me :)
 
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** UPDATE **
 
Google and MSN have indexed the site, including forum pages, and they are appearing correctly.
 
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