my Smartphone symbols come out weird. why?

[ZingChoirsOfAngels]

look:
â??

that should be an arrow

£10

that should be ten pounds

2°C

2 degree Celsius

did they work? I doubt it. What's going on? I'm going to try out all of them (can you tell I'm bored? )

anyone has the same problem?

!@#$/^&*()-'":;,?

they are ok. next lot

+Ã?÷={}[] â?¬Â£Â¥â?©%~`¤â?¡â?¥_|ã??ã??¡¿

ooh, there they are, what are those Ã? things doing there?

°â?¢â??â??â?¡â? â??â??â?§â?£â?²â?¼â?¶â??â??â??â??â??â??â??â?ª:-);-):-D:-(:'(:O

wtaf?

Crikey. Um, not sure why that's happening Zing - which phone are you using?

Samsung Galaxy 3.

good Christmas name btw. decorKate is inspired!

back to phone - DD keeps getting her mitts on my phone, maybe she did something to it?
It's when I switch from ABC to 123Sym that it happens, on the 2nd & 3rd "pages" (don't know what they are called, there's a button which is an arrow in ABC mode or shows 1/3 or 2/3 or 3/3 in 123Sym mode)

â?? that is supposed to be a star

I think it's to do with the way that your phone is encoding symbols and the way mumsnet is decoding them.

Your phone and mumsnet are speaking slightly different languages and when mumsnet doesn't "understand" your phone's symbol encoding it puts in a kind of best guess instead.

This is a common problem, and why it is best to use the sites own symbols rather than ones from your phone.

but it's been fine! it's been always fine

best to use site's own symbols? nooooo, it doesn't have star or heart or mini trees or many other things that I use to make funny drawings, including my Scary dog and special bunting!

(and now I have no connection so maybe I sent this post 4 times )

My Galaxy S4 does this too! I wrote cliché the other day and it came out really weird!

cliché
£1 shop.

There you go, Im back on the laptop now. That should have said Cliché and £1 shop!

I haven't got a laptop

cliché

ooh, it's a secret language!

Saggy

can you see the â?£ from the wood?
you are a â?? and I â?¥ you!

Say what??