User talk:SpiderDawn

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Hello, SpiderDawn! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! -- Levine2112 discuss 18:27, 2 December 2008 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Help and Questions

• I haven't been able to find out what font I need to display everything in Wikipedia properly.
  • I see that there are many fonts available when I search, but
  • so far I have been unable to find a page to help me understand why my browser won't display certain text.
• An example: When I navigate to the following page: (I_Know)_I'm_Losing_You
  • on the right side of the page are some info boxes. At the top of each info box is a line that displays the title of the song, and perhaps the title is surrounded by quotes or something--I can't tell because what I see are three garbled characters (in sequence: an accented letter 'a', a square, another square) “.

Thank you in advance for any help with this. SpiderDawn (talk) 01:47, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

• Huh. The quotes render propetly for me. Could you ask at the help desk perhaps? Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 01:51, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
• Further information: Browsers
  • Opera is my browser of choice (using v.9.52)
  • When I use Firefox on the same computer, I can see all the text okay.
• I found a solution to my problem after fiddling around with some menu items I hadn't considered previously.
  • Open Wikipedia page with garbled type.
  • In Opera, navigate to View/Encoding/Automatic Selection.
  • The page automatically reloaded, displaying the type correctly.

SpiderDawn (talk) 01:59, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

• Okay, so it works now? Good. By the way, new posts go to the bottom of talk pages. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)} 02:18, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

• Okay, moved. Thanks for helping! SpiderDawn (talk) 02:24, 21 December 2008 (UTC)