Over the past few weeks occasional odd characters have appeared under the first letter of various recordings in our recordings list.

The last three or four episodes of "Desperate Housewives" have had a dot under the D. One episode of "In Search of Medieval Britain" has two dots under the I, another has a dash under the I.

The programmes record, play and delete with no problems. I'm wondering whether it's peculiar to our box, or is happening to anybody else's recordings?

I think you are seeing the previously reported problem where titles contain a line feed character so that you are seeing the vestiges of a second line. This seems to be a new quirk at 1.00.21. Nothing to worry about.

That's good then. I was a bit worried that something might be up with the file system.

No need to learn morse code either!

I first saw this today under the T on T4