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Asked: 2026-05-10T18:19:57+00:00

When you paste the following URL into IE: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx , the link on the

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When you paste the following URL into IE: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx, the link on the right of the page cleanly says ‘Download Zoomit (77 KB)’. If you paste the link into an Office document (Word, Excel, PowerPoint — tested using Office 2003), and activate the link from the document, that same text has picked up a couple of A-circumflex symbols. This is because the source HTML contains ‘ ’ entities (non-breaking space) which get translated to Unicode 00A0. In UTF-8, this is expressed as X’C2A0′, and then the X’C2′ gets displayed as a A-circumflex. I don’t completely understand how the code pages get mixed up like this, but I’d really like to find a HTML meta http-equiv charset value that will cause my pages containing the nbsp-entity to display properly even when linked from an Office document.

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  1. I found an answer that seems to be working. First I added an alert to display the document.charset. This displayed ‘utf-8’ when invoked directly, and ‘windows-1252’ when invoked from a hyperlink in a MS Office document. I therefore inserted the following meta-tag, and pages seem to display correctly even when invoked from Office documents: 

    <meta http-equiv='content-type' content='text/html; charset=utf-8' />
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