A simple reminder?

[Oddysey]

Gang;

Hopefully, I've only forgotten how to do this, and you can all laugh at my advancing Alzheimers. However, this has been bugging me for several months now, and I can't seem to figure it out. Here goes:

Many sites on the web, if not most of them, are now serving their pages with strange characters, or just as bad, with normal characters where they don't belong. The best example is a question mark being used to replace an apostrophe, or even just stuck wherever the page's author felt like putting one. (But in checking the source code, I see that sometimes a "page generator" is used, so I can't always blame the author. ) This site itself is a prime example, as we'll see in a moment.........

I have a filter that more or less converts those questionable question marks into apostrophes, which is what I'd usually expect to find in that position. Sadly, as often as not, the bogus question mark occurs in the middle of a link. As you can guess, this screws up the link, bigtime. When I click it, I get what amounts to a 404 error. I check the address bar, and sure enough, bold as brass, there are a bunch of apostrophe's, and no question marks.

Here's the promised example, straight from this very page's source code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://prxbx.com/forums/css.php?theme=5" />

What I end up with, after my filter is applied, is:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://prxbx.com/forums/css.php'theme=5" />

And if you haven't guessed it, or you don't want to experiment for yourselves, that kills the stylesheet that applies the Forum's theme. What I get is a bastardized version of Wired News, and that's NOT a good thing.

So the question I put to you all is, how do I tell Proxo to not look at links of any sort when searching for potential replacements? I'm not posting my current filter, I don't want to subconsciously influence how you might do the job.

TIA




Oddysey