CA> Whats the deal with those funky characters above? Do you see it on your
 CA> mail? I thought it was from my NNTP client, but this was posted by
 CA> another user.

That is UTF8 encoded text from your NNTP client.

I'll be doing an update eventually (sooner than later) that will make it work a
little better so its nothing to worry about for now.

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