What happened to my Umlauts?

[KaLeu]

Just a quick question that has probably been asked before: the board apparently displays any character that is outside the 7 character ASCII set, as a small rhombus with a question mark inside. At least, that’s what it looks like to me.
For example, in this thread: http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=16779.30, in my post dated June 18, 2010, 03:19:33 pm, I quoted a bit of German text containing several Umlauts (an Umlaut is displayed as the pair of dots above an a, o or u in German). It looked alright when I posted it, but by now it looks strange with all the replaced characters.
I think I noticed this some time ago…… have there been any technical changes during the last few months that might be related to this?

[Panther]

I don’t know what happened technically, but as a workaround you could replace the “Umlaute” by writing “ae”, “oe” or “ue”.
For example: “Die Flottenmoerderin”.
:-)

(In case you are German please ignore this comment.)

[KaLeu]

Thanks, and no, I’m not German…… speak the language reasonably well though. I know about the workaround but I like them better the other way. And I want my c-cedille and e-accent grave as well!  :-)

[Panther]

@Herr:

Thanks, and no, I’m not German…… speak the language reasonably well though. I know about the workaround but I like them better the other way. And I want my c-cedille and e-accent grave as well!  :-)

Alles klar!
;-)

[KaLeu]

I’d say it’s some sort of technical problem - maybe one of the forum admins can look into it.

On a side node, I thought Gargantua’s comment that was here but has now disappeared, was rather funny.

[Gargantua]

I’ve actually forgotten what it was now lol.

Wait…

It’s coming back to me lol.

I guess it could have been construed as a personal attack? :P

[KaLeu]

Yes, I think you accused me of being a weird commie European using all sorts of pervert gibberish, or something like that. And you know, I’m proud of that!  :-D

[djensen]

Ugh. Why was that deleted?

[KaLeu]

I don’t know. But in the mean time, my Umlauts are still missing!

[Gargantua]

Eurotrash!  :P

[KaLeu]

[Noll]

日本は無敵だ～