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It doesn't happen on ikiwiki.info but on my site if I enter any of the fancy typography characeters (“,”,…, etc) then when I save the page they are displayed as garbage characters. I've put an example at the top of this page.

Sorry, I know the title is ridiculously vague for a bug but I don't know what the proper name the fancy typography characters are. :-/

-- [[AdamShand]]

The page is fine if I download it and view it locally, or put it on my laptop's web server. I imagine that the problem is due to your web server not saying that the encoding of the page is utf8. For apache you could try setting this:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

Although I don't need that setting here.. Maybe your apache config has some problem, because your web server is doing this: --[[Joey]]

Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 2135
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />