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...