Posted on 11/05/2015 11:25:24 AM PST by Michael.SF.
In the last few weeks I have seen symbols appearing where commas or quotation marks should be. Such as this:
extremists  .... Mark Levin â€â€
I don't know about anyone else, but they kind of bug me. By accident, I found a fix.
If you go back and edit the same in the preview, and take the symbols out and add back in the desired punctuation, they do not then appear in the post.
Which browser are you using? I’m getting the same crap in Chrome.
Arabic ?
Explorer
It seemed to come after what seemed to be a cyber attack.
Looks European. In my example, the symbol for Euro’s appears and the A’s have an accent symbol.
The best thing to do is to copy the selection from the web, paste it to a text editor (notepad or text book, etc). Just click Save as text. Then copy THAT, and post it.
It sounds like a lot of work...but it really isn’t.
The issue is that when you copy from a web site it is encoded with an “alphabet.” Sometimes that alphabet is not consistent with the FR web page settings. It happens a lot when someone has written the article in word and then you try to copy it to HTML. The differences are small, but tedious.
Use your short cuts. It takes almost no time.
That sounds better! Thanks
 â€â€Â
There, I've said too much.
this is probably due the document deceleration in the header of FR pages - template or container
coping punctuation from another form of coding will rewrite the code for those symbols - you can encode them properly with https://www.bing.com/search?q=ASCII+Full+List&FORM=R5FD
over in the right right column is the code - until they get the DD fixed
It is mostly a problem of cutting and pasting. The ‘ and “ symbols that are slanted
seem to be the problem where as the vertical ones like I posted are okay.
So if you are copying and pasting, review before you post and if you have slanted
symbols in your post correct them with your keyboard and all will be okay.
That’s what I started doing. It’s a little time consuming. Sometimes it’s easier just to hand type it in there myself.
That is a quick solution and I will try it next time with notepad. Thanks!!
I can’t tell if I’m logged in.
#JohnCanFixIt
This problem has been discussed ad infinitum on the forum, recently. Apparently, John and Jim are working on a fix.
It’s not just you. 4-5 people a day are staring threads about this.
Other threads if anyone is interested:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3356023/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3354405/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3354891/posts
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