Why the title from my site is not correctly diplayed by Google?

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[dario]

Hi-
I have a site and my title in html code is
<snip>

Does anybody know why they have changed the - for ?
Thanks,
Dario

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 12:19 pm (utc) on Aug. 24, 2002]
[edit reason] See charter. No search urls to a site please. [/edit]

[cminblues]

Your title is not "C... - c...".

The char between the 2 spaces in the middle, is not a "-".

Its ASCII code it's not 2D[Hex] -> 45[Dec]
(which is the code of "-").

It's 96[Hex] -> 150[Dec].

And, because your char is beyond the standard limit of ASCII char 7E[Hex]->126[Dec],
it's normal that Google display a '?' instead.

Hope this help.

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 12:22 pm (utc) on Aug. 24, 2002]

[Macguru]

Hi dario,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld.
Did you read paynt's welcome post [webmasterworld.com]? She did write a very good tool to get started here.

Is the problem just in title or in other text Google might display?
What kind or charset are you using on HTML pages?
Is it above or under the title?

[danny]

The page will have been produced by software which uses Microsoft "SmartQuotes" to represent dashes, apostrophes, and quote marks. Non-Microsoft browsers often display those as ?s, or not at all. See Correct Moronic Microsoft HTML [fourmilab.ch] for more details (and a perl script for fixing the problem).

[Macguru]

cminblues is absolutely correct about the problem. Your keybord is set to use caracters Google cannot recognise, in titles. You will have to set the keybord you are using to it.

I recommend you using some iso8859 charset for latin language.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/htm; charset=iso-8859-1">

All accentuated caracters on your pages should be revised. (page titles are different)
Here is a few links that might help.

[czyborra.com...]
[w3.org...]
[w3.org...]