Thanks for the work guys. We have noticed a few problems with code in moving to the new forum. It didn't help that there was a bug in the code translation programme But there has also been a character set translation from Latin1 to UTF-8. As you may know, UTF-8 is the new (actually not so new) universal character set standard on the Web. So at least we are now operating with a modern, universal character set. It's difficult to predict what sort of issues this may have thrown up so it's a good policy always to check any old scripts before you use them or recommend them to novices.
I've pinned this topic as it will be useful in the future.