Fix for 'infinitely rendering' GitHub Pages

09:35 My GitHub pages still haven't generated. Think I need to delete everything and start from scratch.

09:51 I zapped everything from the Git repo other than index.html and LICENSE. The build is now instantaneous.

From looking at the raw HTML there may be an issue with the left-finger-pointing emoji: 👈. This was identified when I used WinMerge on the file and started seeing character encoding warnings. Actually it was a more obscure error, but that's what it seems to mean.

I used Atom to replace 15 occurrences. A WinMerge compare with the pre-change version only shows the encoding error on the old file.

• 10:20 Local file still renders OK, so looks like a safe change.
• 10:29 Yes! Fixed! After a re-commit the GitHub pages built instantly. Phew!

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