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Non Life Sciences => Geek Speak => Topic started by: syhprum on 18/03/2011 19:54:33

Title: Spurious characters
Post by: syhprum on 18/03/2011 19:54:33

Does anyone know why these 'AA's sneak in

some voices out there  claiming  

Title: Spurious characters
Post by: Geezer on 18/03/2011 19:58:15

I don't know for sure, but I can tell you there are some pretty spurious characters on this forum.

Title: Spurious characters
Post by: CliffordK on 19/03/2011 05:46:53

Quote from: Geezer on 18/03/2011 19:58:15

I don't know for sure, but I can tell you there are some pretty spurious characters on this forum.

You're not talking about me are you?

When you see characters that are obviously not US/English characters popping in in odd places, they are usually some kind of formatting character.  Bold, italics, or something similar.

When looking at web links, I often see a %20, which I think is a space.

If you give me a little more to go by, I might know what you are supposed to be seeing rather than "Ã"

Title: Spurious characters
Post by: syhprum on 19/03/2011 07:15:28

I went into IE9 tools and changed the encoding to western ISO that seems to have done the trick