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I'm not seeing the character set issue at all. Both Wordpress and Emacs are set to UTF-8.


Here's an imgur album:

http://imgur.com/a/ehla9

Despite your comment saying you've fixed it, I'm still seeing this in Firefox, Chrome and Safari (OS X). No amount of fiddling with character sets client-side seems to fix it.

Lot of it seems to be punctuation and ligature characters getting borked. Some still seems to be escaping issues. Some I don't even know.


Sounds like a font or machine issue? I've never had any reports, ever, about this issue and my blog has been around for three years. I also tested it on my Android phone and it looks as fine as it ever does.

In SCreenshot #1 where the two odd chracters appear around "indent-rigidly" - those characters are normal parentheses. Here is what Emacs reports the opening character to be:

    position: 13888 of 66844 (21%), column: 37
    character: ( (displayed as () (codepoint 40, #o50, #x28)
    preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
    code point in charset: 0x28
    script: latin
    syntax: ()	which means: open, matches )
    category: .:Base, <:Not at eol, a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman
    to input: type "C-x 8 RET HEX-CODEPOINT" or "C-x 8 RET NAME"
    buffer code: #x28
    file code: #x28 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
    display: by this font (glyph code)
    xft:-microsoft-Consolas-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x17F)
    Character code properties: customize what to show
    name: LEFT PARENTHESIS
    old-name: OPENING PARENTHESIS
    general-category: Ps (Punctuation, Open)
    decomposition: (40) ('(')
    There is an overlay here:
    From 13888 to 13889
    face                 show-paren-match
    priority             1000


Very odd. Seems like I might have a corrupt italic Constantia. Disabling the italic variants (forcing fake-italic rendering) immediately fixed this.


Strange indeed. Mystery solved though. Thanks for the screenshots - they helped debug it!


Oh, and what I fixed were the missing angle brackets.




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