Regarding the example text @ mile post 20 in the Courtyard Tokyo Station, Japan thread:

Looks like the poster used left/right curly quotes aka ANSI character codes 147 (0x93) and 148 (0x94), which leads me to wonder whether there's a Windows-1252 to ISO 8859-1 encoding snag (maybe in the input stream?). To illustrate my point compare the following links, which display the same post in isolation and in context, respectively:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/26328984-post20.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/marri...l#post26328984

I clearly see smart quotes displayed in the former but not the latter. Can you open the files in a hex editor and compare whether the byte values are the same on the glitchy chars?

ETA: Combing through SkiAdcock's list of links upthread, I can replicate the display problem of other high bit characters, namely 145 (single left quote), 146 (single right quote), 163 (British pound symbol) and 174 (registered trademark symbol). LMK if I can be of further annoyance assistance.