[Jim Robinson]

This started happening after a system software upgrade a couple weeks ago. It appears something in that upgrade affected our software’s ability to properly handle ms smart characters. John is working on finding a solution. Praying he finds it soon. It’s driving us all nuts.

Straight quotes and apostrophes from your keyboard usually work. Curly or slanted usually fail (especially on cut and paste). It’s a big pain to edit them out before posting, but can be done. “Smart” ellipses and long dashes also fail.

[Yaelle]

Thanks, Jim. All is well if you guys are working on it. So only those using Microsoft cause it? I will police any quotes of my own.

[disclaimer]

Quick fix would be to detect non-printable characters using isprint(), highlight them using a substitute character, and disable post button until all are removed from the text. User can do the conversion by retyping character. Assumes source code is in ‘C’ or C++, or similar.

int isprint ( int c );

[lonevoice]

This started happening after a system software upgrade a couple weeks ago. It appears something in that upgrade affected our software’s ability to properly handle ms smart characters. John is working on finding a solution. Praying he finds it soon. It’s driving us all nuts.

Hi, Jim. I didn't want to bug you, so I read through a lot of posts from the past couple weeks trying to find out if there's been any update on this.

Is there any solution for this yet, or an ETA on when there might be?

Thanks for everything.