The forums are set to use ISO-8859-1 encoding (western european), as per:
The main site is using UTF-8 (universal), as this is the default for XHTML 1.1 sites, but is incorrectly being served with the text/html MIME type. The specs suggest that text/* has a default of ISO-8859-1 unless overridden, but text/html is invalid for XHTML anyway, so browsers may behave in an odd manner on this.Code:<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
Mixing charsets never works - typically, it shows "advanced" characters up as an A with a hat on it, followed by one or more random characters. There's already mixing going on, as contributors writing content to the main site (which is being saved as UTF-8, because it seems most browsers are using that charset for the main site in the absence of correct explicit instructions) - but the automatic forum links are showing un-rewritten UTF8 in ISO-8859-1 mode.
For a practical example, look at the quote on http://forums.hexus.net/lifestyle-ne...-gremlins.html as it comes, then try using your browser's View/Character Encoding setting to jump between ISO-8859-1 (what the page tells you it is) and UTF-8 (what it actually is in this case)


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must admit, that does get quite annoying, and it's not particularly hard to fix...

