Posted on 01/12/2016 8:20:36 AM PST by econjack
Yes, obviously it’s a flaw in the forum software. I don’t think we should expect posters to self-correct for something that any programmer should be able to fix in fifteen minutes. It’s ridiculous that it is persisting this long.
That’s only a problem because the software is poorly coded. It is a truly trivial matter to parse for those characters and substitute them.
That’s my position as well. Love the site, but I am frustrated as hecknwith the apostrophes and the recent sidebar moderation.
OUCH!
Eschew apostrophes and quotes.
Example:
If you copied an article body from Breitbart and posted it raw, it would look like this:
The question of who qualifies as a “natural born citizen†may be close in some cases, but the case of Ted Cruz is easy. Constitutionally speaking, Cruz is a naturalized citizen, not “natural born.â€Â
Take that copied text and run it through the converter at the link I provided and it will look like this when you post it:
The question of who qualifies as a "natural born citizen" may be close in some cases, but the case of Ted Cruz is easy. Constitutionally speaking, Cruz is a naturalized citizen, not "natural born."
Yes; that site works perfectly for conversion. Unless/until FR gets this problem fixed this work-around is great.
But will this method work also for letters with umlauts or other diacritical marks?
Or is it naîve of me to believe that a mere soupçon of recoding will solve this problem? I'm not an Übermensch… Is this the Götterdämmerung of Free Republic?
Regards,
The guy who runs the web site should be embarrassed enough to do some research and rectify the situation.
LAZY.
OFF ITALIANS!!
Kewl...thanks for the link.
Is there a way that we can copy and paste without having to do that?
Who here can't mentally substitute a " for the preceding text string every time you see it? We're adults here, right?
put a link to the link above on your desktop- then run everything through it first when you copy something- it works-
I’m with you on this one. For years we didn’t have worry about this. On my review of this post they do not appear.
I’m sorry but I have nothing new to communicate on this. I’m still praying John gets it fixed soon.
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