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Sorry guys edited again - i wonder if its because my keyboard is set to USA English and if that is making a difference - when previewed the post looks OK with no probs!!best, Rich
Lamb KarahiI was so influenced by the chatter this week
A number of people are complaining about seeing weird symbols. I've done a basic analysis and I think this is what's going on: In the past, most computers were using a simpler text encoding scheme (ISO-8859-1) and these days most software would use a more robust and international encoding (utf-8). What happens is that prior to the forum upgrade sometime in december, the forum was storing and reporting the encoding to be in the old format (ISO-8859-1) and since the upgrade it is storing it in UTF-8, however, the server is not yet fully up to date with the new encoding and is communicating back still in the old encoding format (ISO-8859-1).Now, until `Admin` fixes it, there is a temporary workaround. For recipes that show weird characters, try changing the encoding to utf-8.For firefox users: menu View -> Character Encoding -> Unicode (UTF-8) For chrome users: File( alt+f )/Menu -> tools -> encoding -> Unicode (UTF-8) This will change those characters to the readable characters.The "auto-detect" feature in firefox doesn't seem to work properly, but give it a try and if it works for you, use it. Chrome's autodetect seems fine in the limited testing I've done.
It is a bad thing and I wish you'd stop doing it please!