[Salamander]

We must all learn Ferengi and *like* it.

:)

[Sgt_Schultze]

I’m seeing this on more websites recently. It must be something native to some recent upgrade that is slowly propagating.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

You are not having fun?

[W.]

That'd be nice.
In the meantime.

An oldie...

[EternalVigilance]

“­­­­­.” !

[mountn man]

This is hugh and series.

Are you logged in?

[is_is]

join the $1.00 a day donor club.....that will fix it..../sarcasm....

it is getting f’ing old i agree....but hey....it’s not our house as I’ve always been told....

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[cynwoody]

Although the bug of which you write continues to exist, I no longer see its effects. And you don't need to, either.

Install this user script to clean up the garbage characters when viewing a page and this user script to allow you to post arbitrary Unicode without it appearing as garbage.

The bug is that the FR server mangles posted Unicode characters outside the original 7-bit ASCII range. Such characters are uploaded in UTF-8, which encodes each such special character as two or more bytes in the hex 80-ff range. Instead of leaving such sequences unmodified, as it used to do, the server replaces each byte of each sequence with its corresponding HTML entity (as opposed to the entity for the sequence as a whole, which would be harmless but unnecessary). That results in a mess on the screen, but also allows the original content to be reconstructed. Which is what my user scripts do.

[LowOiL]

You can use this little nifty site to clean up a paragraph, but if longer (includes spaces) then you lose the space and have to manually re-add the spaces. So it makes copy and paste of long article not worth the time.

http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html

[Nacho Bidnith]

I’m getting sick of it as well. One would think that with an operating budget in excess of $350,000 a year, there would be sufficient resources to have this matter resolved.

[Vendome]

Why?

It really screws with bloggers and defeats them...

[FreedomPoster]

Bump

[trebb]

Don't know what's causing it, but donations might not be a bad idea for those who really hate to be inconvenienced.

Now for a short public service announcement to all on FR:
We need to ensure we don't get another Obama-like America Hater as the next President.
The best way to ensure that is to actively support a candidate as the next President.
I prefer Cruz and my money goes to his campaign, hence the Cruz link. If you like someone else, donate to him/her (find your own link to do it) and if you use FR and don't donate, then please don't complain about the welfare leeches or those who have Obama Phones because, functionally, you are no different than any other FReeloader

PS - If you are one of those who cannot afford even a small donation to FR or a candidate, God Bless and happy FReeping!.....

GO CRUZ!! Keep it up Trump!!

Donate to FR

Donate to Cruz

Donate to FR

[SES1066]

I will study the suggestions as I too am frustrated.

[Charles Henrickson]

I use this, and it only takes a couple of clicks and a couple of seconds to fix even a long article:

http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html