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I don't have reference handy... just working off memory as a computer programmer 20 years ago.

ASCII is the code used to transmit text (see Martian movie for details). Initially this was 7 bits long and supported the regular (Latin) alphabet, numbers, common symbols. But with the need to support more languages/alphabets and more symbols (for example the e for Euro currency), the ASCII-256 was defined for 8 bits long (256 different characters). In 2007, ASCII was further extended by defining UTF-8, which includes ASCII as a subset and can be up to 32 bits long.

Maybe there's a setting in the FR server that needs to be switched from ASCII-256 to UTF to handle the special characters and foreign characters now being sent and displayed on our browsers as garbage.

Maybe there's a setting in the FR server that needs to be switched from ASCII-256 to UTF to handle the special characters and foreign characters now being sent and displayed on our browsers as garbage.

You'd think that if it were something simple, they would have fixed it by now. I hope it's not some character-defiling malware that has infested the server.