[eluser]charlie spider[/eluser]
true and true
charsets are good
one dumb dumb thing i overlooked was the encoding of a template view file i use that all of my content gets dumped into. somewhere along the line, it somehow got changed to iso-8859-1 but i've changed it back to utf-8
that fixes the problem with the registered symbol but it still chokes on those non-standard double quotes.
i will just edit them manually and run with that.
i wish there was an obvious solution to this
thanks for all of your help btw
it is greatly appreciated
