I've always had problems copying and pasting recipes from here with the fractions showing up as question marks when I paste them into my word processor. But, I have a strange word processing system - Appleworks, which I hate, but we can't afford Microsoft Word, and I don't know that I really want it. I used to wish people would just type out the fractions, but I did that the other day at work on the pc there, which has word, and it automatically changed the typed out fraction to one that looked more, well, like a real fraction. Oh, well, the machines seem to think they know what we want better than we do. As for the recent problems, I've noticed them too, and been confused by them. I've also noticed in some threads, (not this one, though) a blank space between the last post and the box to type in our message. What's up with that? Sally

This used to only happen to me when I posted two in a row (when I thought of something I forgot to include) so I would add a "P.S...." in the subject line of the 2nd post to get around the message. Lately though, I'll get that message when I've posted, several others have posted after me, and I post again. In one thread there were maybe 5 other's responses between my initial post and my second one. Very odd. Changing the subject line still works, tho.

I just use the asterisk. It is 94.9* right now. I figure anyone would know what I'm talking about and it's not hard for me to remember.

Okaayyyyyyyyy..... Here's what I did: Clicked on the tool bar: View, scroll down to Encoding. Then I switched from Western (ISO-8859-1) to UNICODE (UTF-8). No weird symbols on THIS thread,,,,, they disappeared!! BUT..... I opened another tab & checked THIS thread and the CASSEROLE thread..... the WEIRD SYMBOLS are back & the Encoding has switched back to Western (ISO-8859-1). So it must be the default Encoding???? BTW, I checked my other browsers Safari & Chrome..... both show the WEIRD SYMBOLS. ***in wayyy over my head here****