Posted by Roy Schestowitz on 05/21/06 11:44

__/ [ Jukka K. Korpela ] on Sunday 21 May 2006 09:32 \__

> Starman <iknowbutidontknow@yahoo.com> scripsit:
>
>> Some how I'm getting the following inserted on my webpage between text
>> words:
>>
>> ÂfÃfÂ,Ã,Â,ÃfÂfÂ
>
> Your newsreader does not declare the character encoding of your message, so
> US-ASCII is to be implied, making octet C2 (hexadecimal) undefined. So even
> this part of the problem (what you actually see) is unspecified.


It's a matter of bad editor, I believe (maybe not one which supports unicode
propertly), rather than a faulty newsreader.


> You haven't specified the URL, and you haven't told which authoring tool
> you are using. Don't expect useful answers before you specify them.


Give him/her a chance to post a followup...


>> What is causing this
>
> Well, the hell just froze over (Finland won the Eurovision contest), and I
> guess that explains pretty much everything.


*LMOA*


>> and how do I fix it?
>
> Join us.
>
>> I tried deleting the characters, but everytime it seems to return.
>
> It's either your authoring tool, or a curse upon you. Normally I'd vote for
> the former, but now...
>
>> I never had this
>> problem before, but today it seemed to appear.
>
> Right. After all, the hell _just_ froze over.


Yes. Last night I put 2.5 spoons of sugar in my coffee, rather than just 2.

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