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Vanity: Can Someone Address the Quotation Mark Problem?
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| 11/09/15
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Posted on 11/10/2015 11:06:41 AM PST by Yaelle
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A lot of people, including me, like to whip their eyes down articles and threads, and this really slows us down. Can we fix this problem?
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posted on
11/10/2015 11:06:41 AM PST
by
Yaelle
To: Yaelle; Admin Moderator; Jim Robinson
Pinging Jim as I have the same problem with every post.
Maybe a Firefox issue?
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posted on
11/10/2015 11:10:24 AM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
To: Yaelle
I have found that when I preview my post to a thread, the weird symbols pop up. I retype the quotation marks or whatever has been altered in the preview window and when I preview it again, they are correct and the post comes out perfect (typeface-wise; the content is usually complete crap).
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posted on
11/10/2015 11:10:43 AM PST
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: Mariner
I don’t think it is Firefox because I’m on an iPad.
Is there some browser or hardware where this mess does not occur? I’ve seem people complaining about it on threads and I haven’t heard it is limited to one form of viewing FR.
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posted on
11/10/2015 11:12:03 AM PST
by
Yaelle
To: Yaelle; Jim Robinson
Read posts “in context” while JimRob and JohnRob continue to work on this.
Only apostophes, right/left quotes are affected. Even while thread-scanning (thank you Evelyn Wood), it hasn’t been that difficult for most of us.
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posted on
11/10/2015 11:12:27 AM PST
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
To: LostInBayport
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posted on
11/10/2015 11:12:30 AM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
(The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
To: Yaelle
From what I know the admins (and of course Jim) are aware of this issue. It seems to be something on FR’s side software related. I don’t know I’m not an expert. But they are aware of it. It seemed to happen right after that thing with Google blocking FR as a “possible malware site”. Who knows.
To: LostInBayport
What Yaelle said...
You need to replace the characters in the post box when you cut and paste text into it. The bad characters include single and double quotes, and others.
To: LostInBayport
Lol! I’m sure your content is novel and thoroughly fascinating. :)
It even occurs in the original articles, making it so hard to read them. It seems anytime anything is quoted, FR doesn’t pick up the quotation symbols like it used to. Wonder why.
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posted on
11/10/2015 11:13:52 AM PST
by
Yaelle
To: Yaelle
FR proprietary software was updated recently. This is apparently a new “feature”. The only solution is to contribute more $$$ and wait.
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posted on
11/10/2015 11:14:01 AM PST
by
Paladin2
(my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Well, if most of you don’t mind it, I guess I’m the only one who has a very hard time. It is very jarring and I tend to just not read those lines. I wouldn’t want to read if we all left out the letter S everywhere either.
Glad to hear they are working on it.
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posted on
11/10/2015 11:15:36 AM PST
by
Yaelle
To: Yaelle
Vanity: Can Someone Address the Quotation Mark Problem?Can we quote you on that?
To: Old Sarge
I’m not actually sure you can!
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posted on
11/10/2015 11:18:59 AM PST
by
Yaelle
To: LostInBayport
found that when I preview my post to a thread, the weird symbols pop up. I retype the quotation marks or whatever has been altered in the preview window and when I preview it again, they are correct and the post comes out perfect (typeface-wise; the content is usually complete crap). FR is no longer able to handle italic quotation marks, apostrophes, em dashes of any type, and any higher level ASCII characters in any browser, it seems. This occurred after Google claimed that FR was a malicious website, but that may have been a coincidence.
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posted on
11/10/2015 11:20:12 AM PST
by
Swordmaker
( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue....)
To: Yaelle
It’s not FR. You copy source has salted the content with unreadable characters to prevent what you are doing. Little binary values other than x020 (Space).
Paste your content into notepad and see what shows up.
To: Yaelle
I used to encounter this problem only when I ran a spellcheck on a pending post.
Now it seems to be present all the time on all posts when using any of the mainstream browsers - Firefox, Chrome, MS Edge.
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posted on
11/10/2015 11:21:38 AM PST
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Politicians should be forced to wear the logos of the special interest groups they are beholden to.)
To: Yaelle
I am not seeing it on Google Chrome
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posted on
11/10/2015 11:25:07 AM PST
by
Mr. K
(If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
To: Yaelle
The quotation mark problem occurs with left- and right-hand quotation marks (curly quotes), not with the normal type on most keyboards.
"Enclosed in straight quotations"
âenclosed in curly quotations.â
I think most - if not all - of the problem occurs when people cut and paste material from other websites. Quoted material you type in won't have the problem.
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posted on
11/10/2015 11:27:53 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
To: muggs
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posted on
11/10/2015 11:30:24 AM PST
by
timestax
(American Media = Domestic Enemy)
To: Yaelle; All
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posted on
11/10/2015 11:33:06 AM PST
by
McGruff
(Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
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