[tiffany_sands]

Hello! I’m new to BBPress and this is my first installation.

I’m getting � “REPLACEMENT CHARACTER” showing up. Usually this means there’s some encoding interpretation problem. I’ve added the following meta to my heading, but am still getting the replacement characters.

<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″>

Any ideas on how to resolve?

http://bmslifttruck.com/forums/

Thanks bunches.

[Robin W]

I can see lots of ‘?’ – is this your issue??

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.

come back with the results !

[Stephen Edgar]

Your theme is doing this:

Look at your CSS file, line #95

ul li:before {
  position: absolute;
  font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
  content: "\e98a1e";
  color: #f6cf08;
  font-size: 14px;
  line-height: 20px;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
}

It’s inserting content: "\e98a1e"; before every unordered list element.

You see the same issue on your about page http://bmslifttruck.com/about/

I’d suggest contacting the theme authors, about this, it has nothing to do with any encoding issues, and p.s. any encoding issues in a WordPress world you should use UTF8 😉