I was seeing variously a hollow or solid square blob symbol wherever the 160 code was, depending on which of "Arndale Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Code 2000", "Console437", "Courier", "Courier New", "Fixedsys", "HVRaster", "Lucida Console" and "System" fonts I specified to be used for "preformatted text" in the font configuration for Opera.

Having tried accepting the Author stylesheet (node_id=234493 & node_id=204962) and overriding with local settings, I eventually discovered an option that is only available via the view menu (not in the extensive configuration dialog that I spent ages trying every combination of even vaguely related options), View->Encoding->Automatic. At some point, I know not when, I apparently switch this setting off in favour of View->Encoding->Unicode->utf-16. Setting this back to automatic fixed the problem immediately. It also threw away the contents of the reply dialog that I had spent ages typing all the different things I was trying as I went. Which is a good thing because at the end of the day, everything preceding this is just a cover for

CLOSED: USER ERROR

Sorry to have wasted your valuable time.

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In reply to Re: Re: Unicode in <code> sections. (160=&nbsp;) by BrowserUk
in thread Unicode in <code> sections. by BrowserUk

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