[Gaffer]

This happens on my Win 7 desktop and also with my iPhone 6S+...is anyone else seeing this?

[McGruff]

I've got alot of garbled characters showing up like when you use “quotes”. Just started this morning.

[wbarmy]

Actually, I thought it was just bad HTML formatting on our parts. I guess I will need to review it further.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I am and someone else mentioned it. Search for a post about black diamonds.

[PghBaldy]

Yes I see it. Hardly ever saw it before but in last day, would see in several times.

[Zack Attack]

Today is the first day I have seen this. Seems something is not interpreting certain characters properly but the characters show correctly when I visit the linked article so it seems confined to this site.

The diamond with a question mark is a replacement character for one not recognized in the character encoding.

[Yardstick]

My guess is that John R. is in the middle of doing something with the site’s HTML parsing and that it’s unrelated to the malware warnings.

[MarchonDC09122009]

Yes, I’ve seen it in my posts, and that of others.
Using Windows 7 and Android, both using Firefox browser.

[Zack Attack]

Just to follow up, this now seems to have cleared up for me.

[beaversmom]

Seeing it as of yesterday.

[NonValueAdded]

It’s a character set issue. Cut and paste from an article and their character set being different from FR’s. I typed this directly, so let’s see if I get apostrophes or we see a+hat/euro sign/tm symbol.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Wh@t ar3 y0u t@lk1ng ab0ut???

[outofsalt]

Yes, I keep seeing these odd characters a lot here lately.

[csvset]

Saw it on some headlines yesterday. Firefox on OS X.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Bookmarking so I can see if anyone figures this out.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I agree completely.

Last 24 hours or so.

[McGruff]

I'm seeing it on Firefox, Opera and IE. Couldn't even post an article because of all the garbage characters.

[Responsibility2nd]

bump

[EternalVigilance]

It’s something internal to FR. Even when I type a quote directly into a post - no cutting and pasting from another site - the formatting is going kerploo-ey.

Sometimes anyway.

[McGruff]

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[Marcella]

I have Windows 7, use Internet Explorer, have not had the malware warning at all and my posts are correct (in substance and individual letters :o). However, I see those odd characters in other people’s posts.