characters being changed

[WhiteJC]

my forum has recently decided to change some characters, in some instances.

as an example
' will be change to ?

this doesn't happen when the ' is entered directly from the keyboard however, if its cut-n-paste then it will change!?

I've checked the tables via phpmyadmin and the collation is set to latin_swedish_ci

I've read some of the topics on this board but they appear to be concerned with non-latin character sets so I'm wondering if changing to utf8 will make any difference?

here's a link to my site...
http://www.friendsoffulham.com/forum/index.php?board=1.0

here's a thread with the characters changed
http://www.friendsoffulham.com/forum/index.php?topic=55433.0

[d3vcho]

Yes, usually moving to utf8 will solve the problem.

[Kindred]

it is because the single quote is not actually a single quote...   you're talking about content pasted from a program like Word...   which uses "curly quotes" (e.g. nonstandard, extended ASCII)   so, yes, you would need to switch to UTF-8 if you intend to keep using pasted content.

[WhiteJC]

thanks guys, changing to UTF-8 looks as if its now showing the correct characters