User talk:Erik Postma

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Did you use some kind of external software in your edit of Silphium? Your edit messed up all the special characters in the article, particularly the ♥ in the section on the relationship between this symbol and the shape of silphium seeds. I have fixed this. While this article doesn't have much foreign text, many articles do and could be quite badly damaged by this.--Srleffler 13:00, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi Srleffler, am not aware of any strange software -- did not log in for a long time and now that I finally read your message, I had forgotten I made the edit at all. It was almost certainly with firefox under linux, but I don't remember at which computer or with which default character sets or whatever selected. Will make extra sure that it works next time. Thanks for re-editing.--Erik Postma 21:47, 14 November 2006 (UTC)