I'm getting some wierd gibberish letters

[Be The Light]

when I post stuff. I only get it when I post on DU. Do you know what it is?
A sample below.

In 1978, my parents went to Poland, the first foreign trip in each of their lives. When they returned to our home in Moscow, my mother couldn’t stop talking about what they’d seen — not a place but a movie, Bob Fosse’s “Cabaret.” One scene in particular stayed with her. Three friends are returning from a weekend trip. Sleep-deprived, hung over and preoccupied with their sexual and romantic entanglements, they pull over at a roadside cafe. There, a teenager wearing a Hitler Youth uniform starts singing. He is both earnest and, in his brown pants tucked into white knee-high socks, puerile. But after a minute, other young people in uniform join in, and soon all but one customer are standing and singing. The protagonists duck out. They have been pushing Nazism out of their minds, but at this moment they realize that they are in the minority, that life as they’ve been living it is over. The song everyone around them is singing is “Tomorrow Belongs to Me.”

[Earl_from_PA]

1. It's a character set translation error

The strange characters are from the UTF-8 character set, and not the latin-1 character set. I do not know a solution, one would have to come from someone with more coding knowledge than I possess.

[canetoad]

2. If you happen to be using Firefox

Or one of it's clones, go to the View menu and click on "Repair Text Encoding".

For other browsers, you may need to search for ways to fix text encoding.

[Be The Light]

3. thanks!