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Another useful clue is that, if you summon up old threads (prior to last October or whenever), there is no problem with the content. That indicates the bug is in whatever now processes new user input.

E.g., post straight quotes surrounding something. The server converts your non-HTML post to HTML, adding a <br> here or there, and converting your left and right straight quotes to curly quotes. Your post looks fine. You probably don't even notice what happened to your quotes.

Now somebody quotes your post. That involves selecting your now curly quotes and pasting them into some sort of reply. The bug intervenes and entitizes the three bytes of the UTF-8 representation of your opening and closing curlies. The result is a mess.

Nobody should have to cleanse their input, everything should just work. That’s how it should be. In my opinion.

Absolutely. UTF-8 end to end!

It’s not the preview (I just posted that previous without previewing)

Main-post filtering I think is different to comment-post filtering. *And* there’s some interaction that happens when you *view* a thread, rather than just reading the precis on the main page.

Heh, we’re nerding out on this so hard! If you’re anything like me, you’d just like to see it fixed. I love FR and the random characters just irritate me.

I think we got somewhere though.