You may need to refresh your browser cache after switching the template, so that the CSS gets reparsed properly.
If you change the charset to UTF-8, you need to pay attention that if you didn't previously use a UTF-8 language, the old entries will still be in the same format. Only new entries will show UTF-8 then. This is documented and pointed to here: http://www.s9y.org/46.html
(Not sure, if I understand you right on that issue though - and I'm not sure if anything supersized-specific is applying here
Regards,
Garvin
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