Posted on 01/12/2016 8:20:36 AM PST by econjack
I find it distracting to see those squiggles in a post. Usually, the ’ mark is the result of an apostrophe being inserted in the text. When you cut and paste from some articles, a different code (e.g., often Unicode) is used rather than ASCII code for the apostrophe. The †mark suffers the same fate, and is often associated with the "slight lean" that quote marks have in word processing documents.
The fix is easy: when you preview your post, highlight the squiggle and replace it with the appropriate character as used in a Free Republic post. The squiggles should disappear and the correct character be seen.
Something changed. You used to not have to do that.
You have your work cut out for you here on FR. We have plenty of characters.;-)
It’s ridiculous that this website should have to resort to something like this. It needs to be brought into the 21st century.
I appreciate the tip but why should we have to do this? I don’t have to do it on any other message boards. Why can’t Fr correct this and save us the hassle?
One of the problems is that Free Republic changes the characters when you post. I will use the straight apotrophe in the following line and FR will change it to a curved apostrophe when I post or preview.
‘test’
Then if I quote what appears on FR it will display the garbage symbols
‘test’
As they say...they are working on it.
I’m no insider to the finances at FR, but I’d think somewhere in the $320k/yr budget they might be able to squeeze in enough coding cash to address this issue. Otherwise I can live with it. I’m probably not donating again as long as certain trolls have the run of the place.
Computers can’t be programmed to perform repeated menial tasks?
But the squiggles are an age old FR tradition!
This is the kind of tedious repetitive work that computers are supposed to do automatically for us.
Don’t kill the messenger! I agree that a filter should be possible.
Facts:
1) Except in the very odd/exceptional election year of 1964, the Dems haven’t cracked 50% of the whites in a Presidential election since 1932.
2) Once the ‘64 election was over, the Dems understood that they would never win another Presidential election again unless the Republicans REALLY screwed up...or unless they changed the electorate in a dramatic way.
3) The Dems, courtesy of Bobby Kennedy who wrote the law, and Teddy Kennedy who pushed it in the Senate, passed the 1965 Immigration Act. That law dramatically reduced immigration from our then-traditional large sources of immigrants - England, Ireland, Holland, Germany, etc. - and replaced them with vast numbers of Turd Worlders...whom everyone knows vote around 80% for Dems, and will continue to do so for the rest of their lives, as new immigrants have traditionally done.
4) As a result of the ‘65 Act, and due to the Dem’s outright lying in ‘86 regarding an effective (or any) fence, there are now probably 30 - 40 million illegals in this nation. Note that the (probably low-ball) figure in 2005 was 11 million...we have 2-3 million come in every year, so simple math says that the number is actually somewhere between 31 and 41 million). If any substantial portion of these people ever become citizens, then the Dems will have accomplished a complete shift of the electorate, and will be virtually invincible on the national level. Every state will become like California, both politically and economically - which is to say, overwhelming Dem and broke. But at least if you don’t like California now, you can leave for a better place without much trouble - where are you going to go if EVERY state is like that?
5) Every Republican, and every Conservative voter MUST UNDERSTAND that if such a state of affairs comes to be, NO OTHER ISSUE WILL MATTER AT ALL, because we will ALWAYS AND FOREVER lose on those issues. Immigration is THE issue of this election, and this election is as critical as the 1860 election was - and for the same reason, because it will determine whether this nation continues on as it has existed in the past, or becomes a new and unrecognizable entity that simply occupies the same geographic territory.
Please wake up, and help others to do so by sending them this post (or recommending “Adios America” to them). It really is THAT important.
I’m puzzled why Jim R doesn’t make this a top priority and get it fixed. Or at least communicate a plan to get it fixed. He’s been quite silent on this since it started.
And it continues
Each time I copy the string as displayed in the preview it gets further mangled.
‘test’
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bump-ola
I loved their music too! What, we aren't talking about the 60's band?
I remember the days of unclosed HTML tags and rampant italics!
I don’t know how we survived...
Sounds just like the sort of tedious, repetitive task that should be automated with software - like the software that processes every post to this site. Asking the site users to do it instead of adding it as an automated feature of the FR post algorithm is assanine, IMHO.
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