I'm working on a site that is very text heavy and the site looks fine in Chrome, Firefox and Safari. But when I test it in Internet Explorer it has random scattered superscript "L" Symbols on the text. I looked back to the code to see if there was anything extra written in it causing the L but there was nothing. The main problem is on the homepage.
Here's the site:
http://emilymagnuson.com/mynews2/index.html
And you have to look at it in IE to see the problem.
Looking at the HTML of your website, you have extraneous characters in your text where the Ls are appearing. Your HTML specifies UTF-8. You need to be certain that your editor is saving your text in UTF-8 and not in something else. Deleting those extra characters should clear the problem. I was using Notepad++ as my editor, and they showed up clearly. I saw the Ls in Opera so it is not just an IE problem.
Internet Explorer sometimes renders text differently than other browsers. My suggestion is to create a separate stylesheet specifically for IE. In that stylesheet only allow it to use serif fonts in the paragraph tags like this:
Enter this on the main CSS
<![if !IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="not-ie.css" />
<![endif]>
In the not-ie-css:
p {
font-family: serif;
}