You will notice that that posts older than this one are marked by an accented “A” character — this is the unfortunate legacy of a subrelease upgrade to the WordPress software that powers this blog.� Not sure what the issue is, at this point, but I will search for a solution.� Until I find one, I offer my sincere apologies for the unadulterated ugliness of the funky text.

 EDIT:  Problem solved.  Had to manually hack a PHP configuration file.  *sigh*