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Posted on 10/30/2015 9:53:08 PM PDT by saminfl
In every thread and post today I keep seeing symbols like this it’
U2?
Au contraire. You will see less and less contributions made to FR until this gibberish is resolved.
It’s far less disturbing than the homo porn the lefties attacked us with some years back.
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Note: While he may be explaining it as pasting to word or email, the same applies when the pasting is done to another website.
Well apparently where it is posted on this website has the same conditions. If you notice if you paste something and then go wipe out the single quotes and double-quotes and retype them in, the extra characters will go away. Leaving the single or double quotes as typed, sans the extra characters. The function of converting is the problem.
JR is forcing us all to learn Greek.
;D
example 1.
example 2.(the word "don't").
For the time being comma one must spell out all of the punctuation marks period When quoting comma use the terms quote quote unquote and quote unquote unquote period And when doing possessives comma either spell out quote apostrophe unquote or comma for example comma instead of saying quote John apostrophe s house unquote comma say quote house of John unquote period
Umlauts do not work, now.
There went my whole BOC gag.
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FR pages are supposed to be coded in UTF-8. That means you should be able to copy and paste Rooskie, Chinese, Arabic, whatever — not to mention curly quotes, em dashes, and funny apostrophes — and expect it to show up correctly in the user's browser.
That used to be true. However, in the last few days, something got broken in the FR server. Now, if you post UTF-8 (that matters — normal red-blooded American ASCII is also UTF-8, but doesn't need to be), you get garbage.
What appears to be happening is, the server scans posts for bytes falling outside the 7-bit ASCII range and substitutes HTML entities for each such byte. The result is a mess.
For instance, consider the word refugee enclosed in curly scare quotes, e.g., “refugee”. Have a closer look:
“refugee”
Notice that the open and close quotes have different shapes. That's why they are curly. In 7-bit ASCII, they would be the same — 7-bit ASCII can't represent curli-quotiness:
"refugee"
In the first example, in UTF-8, the curly quotes are each represented by three binary bytes. The left curly is e2 80 9c, and the right curly is e2 80 9d. When your browser encounters those sequences while operating in UTF-8 rendering mode, it correctly paints the left and right curlie shapes on your screen. IOW it just works.
However, if the recently introduced server bug gets a chance to intervene, it replaces e2, 80, 9c, and 9d with HTML entities representing those individual bytes. E.g.,
“refugee”
Your browser faithfully renders those corrupted entities, resulting in garbage:
“refugeeâ€
A circumflexed a followed by a Euro symbol followed by whatever. LOL!
The fix is obviously to revert the recent change.
Did the change get introduced as a result of the recent Google malware scare?
You could also copy & paste this apostrophe that my system uses: ‘
Because the problem only involves other types of apostrophes: slanted, and curved?
All I know is it happens when you cut and paste those symbols. When you type them it’s fine. Also, it’s always changed them in they typing box when you run spellcheck, but it still had them come out right when you post. It also adds paragraph html prompts when you run spell check. That can be annoying.
Quick question; would the Find/Replace command work?
So does getting rid of “Smart Quotes” help?
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