- There....I said it. Now turn me in to the authorities.
They'll have to arrest me too bump. 
Posted on 11/09/2015 9:06:28 AM PST by jimjohn
Dear FR Admin:
It's been a few weeks now, but I'm sure those pesky characters are becoming annoying. I did see one thread where I moderator say it was being worked on, but I have yet to see a fix. Perhaps fellow freepers can help "crowd fix" / offer possible solutions.
Yeah, someone said just paste whatever you copy into notepad, then copy the article fro mthere and repost in here and it will avoid those characters, but I tried it and it doesn’t seem to work for some reason
Sound easier than copy/paste, then chasing apostrophes, click-backspace or delete, after which needing to re-type the character at each occurrence within the text.
Thanks for the tip.
About those funny characters...I thought yowere talking abot Pelosi and Feinstein. I was wrong. Carry on.
except it doesn’t work-
we’re just gonna have to get used to typing
[quote]Doesn apostrophy T[quote] and [quote]We apostrophy re[quote] I’m afraid
Just for that, I'm gonna comment anyway, even though I have nothing of any value, whatsoever, to add to the discussion.
Wait....yes I do. I hate posting dictators.
There....I said it. Now turn me in to the authorities.
I like easy ways out.
On the brighter side, being that there is no easy cure it seems, it makes it easier to spot the occasional unattributed quotations. Unless they try to hide 'em yet further. I can smell them, sometimes. Textual criticism comes naturally to me. It could be comparable to reading fingerprints. When all-of-a-sudden there pops up some paragraph that changes in style, and the subject being spoken about could rationally enough be expected to have been written about extensively elsewhere (and published on the 'net), then in the past I'd choose a sentence to then use as search term -- and bingo --- busted.
That type pf thing occurs on the 'religion' forum upon occasion. I've seen two instances in the last 5 days or so.
Sometimes it's fairly obvious. When it's just a short paragraph or two, it's more difficult to detect --- but the oddball htm characters were tell-tales.
That individual was called on the lack of attribution -- but just shined it on. Plagiarism is ok I guess, if it can be used in effort to rebut the rebutters who oppose the constant "one true church" brayings, proselytizing, and put-downs of dissenters to those type of overblown claims (which even their own otc church doesn't fully, officially agree with(!)).
They'll have to arrest me too bump.
Your post made me do a little research.
Replace smart quotes with regular straight quotes
When I post HTML to a blog, I find that smart quotes don’t show up correctly, so this tool replaces smart quotes (and a few other entities) with regular quotes (or the regular entity). To use, paste the text containing the smart quotes in the top box, then hit convert and the converted text will appear in the lower box.
http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html
Somebody try it out.
Web Content Management Tip: How to Easily Replace “Smart Quotes†in HTML
After: http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html
Web Content Management Tip: How to Easily Replace “Smart Quotes” in HTML
Another example:
“Hell yeah I would,†he told The Huffington Post when asked about killing the Nazi leader as a baby.
“You’ve got to step up man,†the 2016 GOP presidential candidate said. “That would be key.â€
after: http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html
“Hell yeah I would,” he told The Huffington Post when asked about killing the Nazi leader as a baby.
“You’ve got to step up man,” the 2016 GOP presidential candidate said. “That would be key.”
It’s from cutting and pasting. Not translating certain characters on cut and paste.
Not sure how a thread on code turned into a thread on religion bashing- but whatever
We really shouldn’t have to be doing this- we never had to for years, now all of a sudden cut and paste doesn’t work properly
I explained it.
And what's up with characterizing one comment as "a thread"?
Nevermind. "whatever"
that didn’t explain why you’d use it to attack religion- the one doesn’t even relate to the other- unless you are trying to make a connection n that religious people are plagiarizers but you post didn’t state that and instead looked like nothing more than a post taking cheap shots are religion
whatever
More accurately, I was criticizing the propensity of some to plagiarize, using the writings of others as if those were their own, but without provided attribution. Links would be nice too, then a source could be better examined for fuller context, etc.
The coding glitch helped bring one recent instance to light.
mmm hmmm
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