Not recognising some ascii characters suddenly

[joeyjojoshabadoo]

Neither of those are ASCII characters. And I'm not sure of their status within ISO-8859-1 encoding which is what your forum is using.

Back it up and convert to UTF-8 from the admin panel. It might not fix existing posts but it will ensure future posts will work.

did it, and all looks good now mate. Thanks again for your help.

[Arantor]

did it, and all looks good now mate. Thanks again for your help.

Awesome

I will let the evidence speak for itself. When JoeyJJS comes back and says, "the host admits they misconfigured the server the other day and was forcing UTF-8, and now they've fixed it and the pages display fine," I will enjoy watching you eat crow.

I think the evidence does speak for itself. Pie's in the oven.

[MrPhil]

Not the same thing. JJJS changed his forum to work around the hosting problem, rather than having the host fix the problem. All the same to him, but the original cause was never addressed.

[Arantor]

The only person who ever saw it as anything other than ISO-8859-1 was you... but it's funny how I suggested it up front and now mysteriously it all works, isn't it? According to you that should never have worked, right?

[MrPhil]

The only person who ever saw it as anything other than ISO-8859-1 was you...

And both Firefox and Internet Explorer.

[Arantor]

For *you*.

[MrPhil]

And for the original poster (the only way to get the ?-in-black-diamond glyph is to be displaying in UTF-8).

[Arantor]

Which would be funny if that was what I saw... which it wasn't.