The text on my site shows: "Recruiting expert David Perry, author of “Guerrilla Marketing For Job Hunters,†shares a unique way to research potential employers using Google." See bold areas. Somehow, when we moved servers this happened. It's a language problem. When there is a quote and some other characters, it shows that...Don't know how to fix it and this is really annoying! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
It's a character encoding issue. Your server is sending out a different encoding than what your site's pages were saved as and declared to use in the META tag.
Depends on what they're using and what you're using. If your site is in English only, or mostly, you could (if it was easier) simply change your pages to what the server was sending out (I think you can find this out by looking at your site as it is on teh Internetz, and then Page Info via your browser... it will say Charset is "blahblahblah"). You would have to save all your files also with this charset encoding, so you can't simply change what it says in the met tags at the top. If this is like a gazillion-page site though, and if it would be a pain in the *ss to change all of them OR you need a charset different from the really common ones (utf-8 and iso 8859-1) cause it's like a Chinese page or something, then ask your hoster to change for your page. Just remember all three have to add up to the same charset: how your pages were saved, what the meta tag on your page says (if you have one), and what the server's sending out. Right now, the server is overriding your setting (server always has the priority I think).
You should be able to change the charset encoding in your account's control panel. I don't know what panel you're using (and for the record, it's been about four years since I've used cPanel), but it should be possible unless the server admins had to be a bunch of idiots and prevent you from doing so.