What About Those !@#$%^ Characters?

Bertel Schmitt
by Bertel Schmitt

Our tech team applied a security update that appears to munch text. They are hard at work on fixing the problem. It’s not your computer that has character flaws, it’s ours.

Bertel Schmitt
Bertel Schmitt

Bertel Schmitt comes back to journalism after taking a 35 year break in advertising and marketing. He ran and owned advertising agencies in Duesseldorf, Germany, and New York City. Volkswagen A.G. was Bertel's most important corporate account. Schmitt's advertising and marketing career touched many corners of the industry with a special focus on automotive products and services. Since 2004, he lives in Japan and China with his wife <a href="http://www.tomokoandbertel.com"> Tomoko </a>. Bertel Schmitt is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.offshoresuperseries.com"> Offshore Super Series </a>, an American offshore powerboat racing organization. He is co-owner of the racing team Typhoon.

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  • Lie2me Lie2me on May 03, 2013

    (scratches head) How can people who aren't seeing new posts see this one?

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    • Lie2me Lie2me on May 03, 2013

      @Thomas Kreutzer I see, thanks

  • Zekele Ibo Zekele Ibo on May 03, 2013

    Tell your "tech team" to actually view the source code and page headers, as the cause will become blatantly obvious - you are currently serving a HTTP Content-type header (generated either by WordPress or Apache) defining the charset as UTF-8, and then trying (unsuccessfully as the header has precedence) to use a meta charset element to set the charset as ISO-8859-1. One of these charsets is wrong - I will leave it to your "tech team" to find out which ;)

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    • Highdesertcat Highdesertcat on May 04, 2013

      @-Nate Sorry Nate. I found myself agreeing with zekele. I run a Home Area Network for anyone within range of my Netgear Router and have on several occasions tried to solve the problems they experienced with downloading pages and/or text; Mostly old folks in their sixties and seventies exploring the world wide web. Some of the problems, like character insertion, are real head scratchers. Not as simple as shimming something mechanical. Wish it were.

  • Racer193 Racer193 on May 03, 2013

    sometimes the text disappears into the right margin for me and is not a huge issue but sometimes it seems the text is slightly off to the right margin,

  • -Nate -Nate on May 06, 2013

    _STILL_ no joy ; I've tried logging in on different 'puters and I sent a note to the Administrator... I'm dying out here with no TTAC fix . -Nate

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