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The page is character encoded in ISO-8859-1, but the web server is reporting it as UTF-8. (Probably because the web page was written before Unicode became a common concern of webmasters, it dates back to 1999.)

In Firefox, select View->Character Encoding->Western (ISO-8859-1). In Safari, select View->Text Encoding->Western European.

(FYI, this shows up this way on Windows systems too. It's not MacRoman or Windows-1252 to blame this time.)

EDIT: Dang, took too long to write this message to be technically accurate; several others posted before I did. People who complain about spelling errors and minor inaccuracies in web posts should be shot...




Aha - that fixed it! Thanks, all of you.




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