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Your colleague is pasting  characters into the HTML, but when you
look at the HTML in a text editor, you see à characters?
Or are you editing the HTML in Word and seeing it there? You haven't
answered any questions about what's actually in the HTML.
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:55 AM, Sean Brierley
<sean -dot- brierley -at- gerbertechnology -dot- com> wrote:
> Oh, I just want to identify what causes that random interaction.
>
> I mean, I can resolve this (search and replace), but am stuck on the "why"
> of it all.
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