Posted on 10/31/2015 5:38:33 AM PDT by savedbygrace
It has become more difficult to read posts on Free Republic lately. Strange characters are appearing in text that has apostrophes or quotation marks.
If I copy and paste text that contains apostrophes or quotation marks, from another website, when I Preview or Post the copied text into a Free Republic thread these strange characters appear.
Has there been a recent change in the coding here that is causing this?
Anyone know?
You’re nowhere near the first to have commented about it. It does make reading difficult at times.
I was just wondering that myself, anyone have an answer for these hard to read posts?
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People seem to have been noticing it for a week or so
Let me guess. Russian dash cam video. They sure love to record their own near death experiences.
Note: While he may be explaining it as pasting to word or email, the same applies when the pasting is done to another website.
Not sure, but might it have anything to do with “smart quotes” that are in Microsoft Word? They’re the “curly” quote marks (and also apostrophes and single quote marks), rather than the “straight” quote marks. That might happen when any text with smart quotes is directly copied from another source, without first changing the text to “plain” text.
There have always been some problems and errors but its getting out of control. I think it started we when the security alerts were pinging everyone.
I know about the Russians. Love em!
I think the pic is from a movie.
It’s very frustrating. The strange characters also do not show up in the Preview box so you cannot fix them in advance of posting.
Oh, is that why the end of that one log looks so big. Splat.
yah I’m seeing it too. Same on two different computers and my android phone.
Jim and son John know about this...they’re on it.
The best advise is to turn off “use smart (curlly) quotes” in all versions of windows or other apps used to cut and paste text.
This problem is hard to avoid as many sites have this code switch on in the software they use to write the original story, and for some reason seems to be making a re insurgence of late after virtually disappearing for years.
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It is happening because there is a bad case of Smirnoff’s Vodka out there! So the Russkies are really upset and they have infected our computers, and smartphones with the Russian Cyrillic alphabet! Just kidding
I’m not saying it’s aliens,
but...
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