[OLPC library] garbled "Education is our Mission" page on Amazon.com/xo

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Mon Nov 17 16:23:56 EST 2008


Congrats on the amazon.com/xo relaunch!

The XO picture at amazon.com/xo links to 
http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=1243369011 and that has several 
garbled characters in place of apostrophes and some other punctuation, e.g.

Children are consigned to poverty and isolation[\0x1a]just like their 
parents[\0x1a]never knowing

On Windows XP, MSIE 7 displays a box, Firefox 3.1 display its "unknown 
glyph" 001A box, while Chrome just leaves out the apostrophe or dash. 
0x001A is ASCII Ctrl-Z so I'm not sure what's going on.  I couldn't find 
an encoding in Firefox where it worked.


Also, near the end it says
    please visit laptop.org.
laptop.org is green (and so is the period/full stop), but it's not a 
hyperlink.  For grins, here's the HTML :-) :)

please visit </font><font color="#494949" face="Arial, Helvetica, 
sans-serif" size="2"><font color="#54b948" face="Arial, Helvetica, 
sans-serif" size="2">laptop.org.</font></font>

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