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As per the page histories (which is something you should check in cases like this), this is the work of a single troper, one Metalhead 14, where some of his edits are replacing dashes with that strange symbol string. Oddly enough, it only happens to a select few pages he's edited - the rest are fine.
I'd say the mods will want to drop him a PM about this.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
Did a google search on �? and found an few more. This is just the first page.
Prime Evil on PerformanceAnxiety
Dont Kill Bugs on Characters.HannibalFBI
stuffedninja on WebVideo.ComedyShortsGamer
drsdino on Funny.AtopTheFourthWall2014Episodes
Also check out the first New media example on Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma.
I think it's a browser problem. Some browsers can do strange things with code.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
It's just a glitch. It's no one's fault. Fix it where you see it.
I'd been having this problem before whenever I put an em dash in something. Seems to be an infrequent glitch.
Chaotic Greedy
This character sequence (EF, BF, BD) represents in UTF-8 the character U+FFFD, meaning something that the browser couldn't handle.
I've been seeing a lot of � showing up around here and it's confusing.
Why all the �? Moreover, what is �?
I mean just look at this
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Mushroomhead
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Decapitated
Good god, what the hell!? I've been doing my best to clean up, but it's everywhere!
edited 3rd May '14 9:14:58 PM by creekery
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