[DUMBGRUNT]

As lowly linux user, I still see the odd characters.

My guess is the choice of character encoding has changed?

[mountn man]

As lowly linux user, I still see the odd characters.

I've known you for 16-17 years.
You've always hung out with strange characters.

[cynwoody]

My guess is the choice of character encoding has changed?

There is one and only one true character encoding. That is UTF-8.

But it must be observed end-to-end, religiously.