Has the software stopped recognizing special characters?

[EveningStar]

I thought it was just my computer, but a few others are reporting this too. Who else has experienced this?:

It appears that the software is not recognizing special characters such as the smart quote, smart apostrophe, and em (long dash), and other character map symbols - at least in many cases.

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Until this is solved, a good workaround would be to use a text editor to replace the smart quote, smart apostrophe, and em with regular quotes, regular apostrophes, and double dashes respectively.

[Company Man]

I’ve even seen this phenom affect my Taglines. One in particular with an apostorophe puts crazy garbage in its place at least half the time.

[FourtySeven]

It’s interesting the name “ßuddaßudd” seems fine if one views the replies to a post of his. Just not in the thread in general. At least on my end.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Yes I noticed that too. Looks fine in replies for me as well. Just not when he makes a post.

[gaijin]

This has been going on for over TWO WEEKS.

This is....bad.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Everybody is.

[is_is]

Maybe upgrade the software.......

Oh wait.....that option has been ruled out

[GingisK]

Special characters.

Actually, the problem is the massive creeping featurism in web browsers, HTML, and operating systems. The character set is simple and reliable, and always will be.

[golux]

Seems to work okay for my special characters.

[Delta 21]

TURN YOUR BOLD ITALIANS OFF!

[spodefly]

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Have you ever been experienced? Well, I have ...

I actually started seeing it quite a while ago on some summaries on the main page, and then it worked its way into articles posted, and lately into replies.

[JOPO]

Try TEXTSOAP to edit out: http://www.unmarked.com/textsoap/

[Thank You Rush]

“”Is anyone else experiencing this?””

Yes - for about two weeks now. Everything on FR.....If there are links to go to, they are ok but not when they are copied/pasted in a thread...Why is it being ignored on FR?

[Thank You Rush]

They’re working on it?

Well, that’s fine but that was 4 days ago.

[Utilizer]

Still awaiting a cure...

[JRios1968]

Are you logged in?

[Utilizer]

Another day, another continuation of the problem. *sigh*. Odd that it’s happening across all browsers, though.