Posted on 11/04/2015 2:01:03 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator
Many have remarked on the messed up fonts now appearing in so many posts. This can be avoided, though it is a bit of a bother.
These bad fonts stem from cutting and pasting apostrophes (') and quotation marks (").
The marks produced from cutting and pasting these marks has always looked different from those caused by hitting the key on one's keyboard. Up until now, though, when posted they have been turned into apostrophes and quotation marks.
That is no longer happening. While typing the marks on one's keyboard continues to work fine, cutting and pasting them does not. The program is not interpreting them as apostrophes and quotation marks and is turning them into something else.
This can be corrected by simply deleting the cut-and-pasted marks and typing them in instead. When posted these come across perfectly normal. It's a pain having to do it and it takes a little time, but if you really want the text to look like it used to this is what you have to do.
It never happens to me in posts. It happens only on the FR Forum page.
My opinion is that it is a browser conflict. I think that FR is written for browsers other than IE.
These bad fonts stem from cutting and pasting apostrophes (’) and quotation marks (”).
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Vertical works okay. It’s the slanted variety that has been giving trouble.
I’ve always pasted all parts of article posts into notepad, then to the forum.
Thanks for letting me know. BTW late birthday cheer to you!
When you copy from a web page, it copies as HTML into the clipboard with all that markup you don’t normally see.
Some text editors extract the textual content from the html prior to pasting which is what you really want.
Firefox has an addin called CopyText or something like that which does it for you without all the markup baggage.
You may loose line breaks and paragraph marks but...
Who says so? That's bull.
Perhaps it’s time to pull out the Lazamataz shotgun post closer
Unleash the Hyphens!
it’s not just quotes and apostrophes: there’s a whole bunch of other special characters that are being hosed.
Mmmmmm, upgrades.
My staff used to run screaming whenever we announced any kind of upgrade.
I feel your pain.
Relief is on the way...
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and I thought to was because I’m late with my contribution but eBay comes first Jim...
Funny, I don’t notice it anymore.
yup
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