You have some strange encoding going on with your editor. Which editor do you use?
I use NoteTab – http://www.notetab.com/. Have for years and my code has always validated. This is really bumming me out. Bed time . . .
Did you figure things out on this? When I run your site against w3c’s validator I don’t see any problems.
Yes, the evil characters are gone but it was not my doing. My friend, the server admin, did a search and replace without my even asking!
But that does not answer the question of how they got there in the first place or how I can prevent it from happening again.
Now I see that the sidebar the isn’t where it’s supposed to be in FF! It was working here a while ago so don’t know what happened. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. *bawls*
Back to the drawing board . . .
OK. I just did a fresh .zip download, extracted and can see the problem characters in Notepad (but not in NoteTab). Why are they there? I just did a straight ‘extract all’. Running XP Pro SP2 patches up-to-date. Do I need to edit configuration somewhere?
At least I got the sidebar prob fixed . . .
Go figure . . . I just checked out a test installation I did on another server. It validates perfectly with the evil characters. http://www.eartherdesigns.com/journal/ This makes me think it’s a server configuration issue. Does that sound logical?
