Is this a Bug or is it related to the browser.

A recent (/wiki/?diff=minitar minitar) edit shows garbage characters between '''RealTek(RTL8181)at''' and '''11:22:57 CST 2003 version 1.0''' .

Displayed below hopefully...

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Interestingly, it appears to morph into something else while toggling between '''Preview''' and '''Edit Text''' ,and also reproduces itself. Perhaps it's something to do with the preview mode although the next occurence was (I think) before the preview was introduced.


They also show up in (/wiki/?diff=ConnectingToTheNetworkFAQ Connecting To The Network FAQ) under '''Convert degrees, minutes, and seconds to decimal degrees''' - apparently the degrees symbol won't display and conjures up a replacement ;-)


> -## Divide the decimal minutes by 60 to convert them to decimal degrees, and add them to the ABSOLUTE whole number of degrees, then apply the correct sign.  For example, for lat. -37����?�������° 50' 43.53603", do 50.7256 / 60 = 0.8454; 37 + 0.8454 = 37.8454����?�������°; apply sign -37.8454����?�������°.  For long. 145����?�������° 5' 31.85668", do 5.5309 / 60 = 0.0922; 145 + 0.0922 = 145.0922����?�������°; apply sign +145.0922����?�������°. 



I know first hand about the last one as I reimported the relevant section and it appeared to be fine straight after the import, it's since morphed into the garbage characters again.

I'm currently viewing using IE5 version 6.0.26 under win2000. The edit I refer to fixing above was Mozilla 1.6(?) under Linux Fedora core 1.

[GlennMcKechnie graybeard]


Okay, you've got me stumped.  I think this bug is probably related to unicode character translations.  All of the wiki backend is written in ASCII, but it wouldn't suprise me if the browser reinterpreted some of the ASCII as Unicode/ANSI.  I'm using Mozilla Firefox 0.8, and when I look in the __V__iew menu under the __C__haracter Coding submenu I can see that '''Unicode (UTF-8)''' is selected.  If someone gets a chance to play, let me know if you can narrow this down a little more.

[TysonClugg tc]