Information incidental to recent problems:

The Unicode Character 001A (Hex of course) is a control character named with meaning "substitue" in the standard. The usage intended is as a "placemarker" for something to be supplied later. A broken or defective link (esp Java) could result in a "target unknown" return in the browser's interpreter which could revert to the 001A marker. A suggested supbstitute in the Unicode Standard is the "strange character" cited by some - a black square rotated 45 degrees with a white question mark in it. � The formal definition of the character assigned to be displayed for the Hex number FFFD is sort of "take two aspirins and call me again next week" so far as I can tell.

This speculation (hallucination?) is perhaps because a day ago I was briefly unable to open any threads here with an error message indicating "you mistyped xxxx in the object identifier for Jscript target ...." I assume the typo must have been in the page header or style sheet and referred to one of Max's twiddles, and the problem disappeared an hour later, which I then assumed was when a new twaddle replaced the twiddle - proving, regardless of the real reason, that as always, Max is on rhe job.

John