Weird characters in forum post

[TimberFloorAu]

Any idea what causes them.

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[Lynne]

Usually using the wrong collations in your database, I believe. Databases aren't really my area though.

[TimberFloorAu]

Thanks. Only happened once. Wasnt sure of the reason

[Lynne]

I've had my browser do that to certain characters. It happened right after I upgraded my firefox browser. I went crazy googling the thing and trying to figure out what was going on and trying every solution I could find. I finally gave up. Although, I have not noticed it happening in ages now. It seemed to be tied up in the Character Encoding being used.

[TimberFloorAu]

Yeah my thoughts were character encoding.

The user in question, posts from a Iphone. I thought that may be causing the spurious output.