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   Since the move, you may have noticed that certain files which had special characters in them - the second Mini-Story Omnibus, for instance, which has a ton of diacritical vowels, like the grave-accent e in Therèse - seem to be all screwed up.

As near as I can tell, this is happening because the source files are encoded in Western (ISO-8859-1) and the server is mistakenly claiming to your browser that they're Unicode (UTF-8). Until I can get with the server admin to see if this can be sorted out on the backend, here's a workaround: If your browser has a "force this encoding" function, use it to force the browser to view the files as ISO-8859-1 anyway, and the strangeness should go away.

(In Firefox, for instance, this is accomplished with View -> Character Encoding -> Western (ISO-8859-1). Just setting the default encoding to this won't help, I think because the server is making some kind of incorrect encoding declaration. When I pull my View -> Character Encoding tab down, it's always preset to Unicode (UTF-8) regardless.)

Hopefully this is a simple server config issue that can be cleared up in short order. I'll keep you posted.

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