Lots of text garbage in one of my articles

[Joe Redifer]

This one:

http://www.sega-16.com/feature_page.php?id=193&title=Seeing%20is%20Believing:%20Video%20Connectio ns

Looks and reads like ass! And not just because it was me who wrote it!

[sega fan]

I think about 2 years ago, Ken said that he updated Sega-16 and quotation marks on older articles got garbled into 3 random text characters.

[Scooter]

I really enjoyed the article. Now, if you can help me find one of those XMD thingies.... (I've had no luck finding one ANYWHERE).

[sega fan]

Yeah, that was a good read, Joe. I read the entire thing, after diagnosing the text hiccups.

[johnnyb]

I thought someone was trying to be fancy, adding in some extra squiggly symbols to jazz some words up.

Great article btw, I`m pretty average when it comes to that stuff, it all makes more sense now!

[Melf]

I think about 2 years ago, Ken said that he updated Sega-16 and quotation marks on older articles got garbled into 3 random text characters.

Yeah, there are a lot of articles to go back and fix, so please let me know when you see one all wonky like this so I can clean it up.

[vintagegamecrazy]

Melf, Beavis and Butthead (http://www.sega-16.com/review_page.php?id=168&title=Beavis &step=2) is all wonky like that too.

[VinnyT]

Woah, looks like almost no one agreed with me on that one.

[Melf]

Melf, Beavis and Butthead (http://www.sega-16.com/review_page.php?id=168&title=Beavis%20&step=2) is all wonky like that too.

Fixed. Thanks!

[Joe Redifer]

My article linked to in the first post still has some garbage in it, pretty much starting with the SCART section.

Is Microsoft Word the cause, by the way?

[Melf]

Fixed as well.

The garbage text comes from us going from individual files to a database. When everything was parsed, it caused some apostrophes and hyphens to go all wonky.

[Joe Redifer]

Weird. I always get weird stuff if I copy something from Word and paste it into something proper.