# Help! Strange Â characters leaking out

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-strange-a-characters-leaking-out/314202>\
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**Created:** [September 21, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-strange-a-characters-leaking-out/314202 "2010-09-21T15:45:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![somnamblst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@somnamblst](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/somnamblst)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-strange-a-characters-leaking-out/314202/1 "2010-09-21T15:45:26Z")

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Has anyone seen this before? I found someone using Joombla complaining about this. There are literally this many

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then an image file and then more

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