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' becomes â??

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some examples here
phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=109939#109939

some ' chaaracters become â??
Iâ??m insecure about my skinny
i've been seeing a bit of it recently in old threads, perhaps a database error?
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Post by CDN_Merlin »

I sometimes get "domain uis under maintenance" pages when click direct links to a post here.
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how old are the threads you are talking about?
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phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=8733

that is what i talked about here...

i haven't seen it expect in premove posts...
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Post by Unix »

The example link in the first post of this thread comes up looking normal to me without any weird symbols.

edit: on my laptop they're fine but on my main box they're the symbols...weird.
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OK, I can't be sure but I think that's an font or charachter set issue most likely caused during the transfer of databases.

basically the quote symbol is converted to a non standard character.

Not sure how to fix this one, unless maybe one of our resident programmers could write a little app that will covert these characters back to what they should be.

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