[Godebert]

"On a side note... why are so many of the posts infected with special character symbols? It makes everything hard to read."

I thought I was the only one seeing that. What's up with that?

[Greysard]

"On a side note... why are so many of the posts infected with special character symbols? It makes everything hard to read." -- I thought I was the only one seeing that. What's up with that?

FR's Web site is so safe (and old) that it refuses to understand UTF-8. The UTF-8 character encoding method sometimes needs two characters to encode one - if those are foreign or special characters. Some quotes are special and require two consequent bytes to create one glyph. FR's software erroneously treats them as individual characters instead of composing them into one UNICODE codepoint. It is perfectly safe, though. Only ugly.