I was able to see Mike Tempsch's and Peter's german characters just fine:

Now I'm really puzzled. I go to other sites, and have no problem. But here, I haven't seen any. Odd.

I'm using NS 4.7 and IE6 on XP Pro on my laptop, neither of which would show those characters on this BBS. But I saw them fine in IE6 when I reverse translated those words on google.

I just logged in from my work machine (I do make at least a passing effort to keep my work and personal computers separate. ), which is also XP with IE6, and it does show the characters there.

Anyone have any idea why my laptop won't show higher characters on this bbs, but has no problem with them on google and other sites?

thanks,

-jk