Just as we bragged about starting to get our archives in order we discovered a semi-serious technical glitch. We had a backend database hiccup that has disrupted character encoding throughout the site. This means that a bunch of characters such as apostrophes, accents and even umlauts (not the umlaute!) will display as question marks - this is occurring on many of the journal pages. We are working on a database fix to address this issue as we would really rather not hand correct every page on the site. Please bear with us. Vague Terrain will be slightly vague-er than usual until we resolve these issues.
04/07/09 Update: We have determined the cause of the problem and are in the process of fixing it. Unfortunately we're going to have to manually correct the errant pages in our archives, but we can prevent this from happening again with a little database rejigging.
