This website , for example, appears to insert this symbol randomly ( I say random, but I’m sure there is a pattern) I.E.
It’s likely just an encoding problem. I get similar types of things too. But your webpage comes up fine on my browser (firefox), and your strange symbol corresponds to a DASH on my browser.
I get an em-dash instead of that symbol
Most of the time when weird artifacts appear it usually has to do with the encoding used by the website. There are different methods of encoding. I don’t really understand them, but most browsers have an autodetect mechanism, but you can change it manually too.
ahem… I was saying before I so rudely interrupted myself…
What kind of micro universe have I stumbled into here? Is this some kind of" my operating system vs. the rest of the universe" kind of thing here?
Java problems?
Air pressure too low?
Anyone else see these ghosts?
damn, y’all are fast!
It looks fine to be (Mozilla 1.8).
The character encoding of the page is Unicode (UTF-8), and Firefox detects that properly and shows the em-dash as intended. If you manually switch it to Western (ISO-8859-1), it switches to the weird symbols like in your original post.
Therefore… your browser must be assuming it is Western rather than Unicode.
Its a fnord.
or maybe it isn’t.