Originally posted by Donald Wedding:
I just discovered that one of my " characters was a funny looking " (almost italics looking) I don't know how it happened or how it got there. Heck, my keyboard doesn't even make that character. Anyways, I typed over it and voila, it works.
This could come from copy and paste. For example, if you copy a code snippet out of a browser and paste it into a text editor without proper encoding, the resulting text could contain special characters
[ February 27, 2004: Message edited by: Hans Freund ]