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Maybe it is just me, but (Vanity)
11/5/2015 | Me

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 —

I don't know about anyone else, but they kind of bug me. By accident, I found a fix.


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To: kinsman redeemer

Oh!
Never mind.
My beeber batteries leaked on the thing-doodle.
Time for a shower.


21 posted on 11/05/2015 11:44:15 AM PST by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: Windflier; Gamecock
I had not seen it posted, but one cannot see everything.

Thanks

22 posted on 11/05/2015 11:45:27 AM PST by Michael.SF. (This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
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To: kinsman redeemer

Try stuning your beeber, and let the moose have your sister.


23 posted on 11/05/2015 11:46:14 AM PST by miserare ( RIP Officer Randolph Holder; RIP Trooper Joseph Ponder; RIP Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz)
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To: kinsman redeemer

€€£She¥¥s dead>Jim!


24 posted on 11/05/2015 11:46:31 AM PST by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: kinsman redeemer

You’re not.

In fact, no one else can see or read your posts...


25 posted on 11/05/2015 11:46:46 AM PST by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: Michael.SF.

Doesn’t work for me. These characters appear in my own typing... ooops, see?


26 posted on 11/05/2015 11:47:39 AM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: miserare

Thanks! But I stuned it before my thing-doodle went south.

Are there any calls for me €€?


27 posted on 11/05/2015 11:49:44 AM PST by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: Michael.SF.

FreeRepublic has a misconfigured webserver. It is serving up ISO-8859-1, but embedding a charset tag that forces your browser to interpret it as UTF-8.


28 posted on 11/05/2015 11:50:26 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Vermont Lt; Jim Robinson
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 is not that. I've experienced it by cutting and pasting text with quotes and apostrophes directly from Free Republic.

Even though they displayed correctly in the original post, such as yours above, they do not display correctly from a direct cut and paste.

It is not an issue of other websites encoding. It is a problem within Free Republic.

29 posted on 11/05/2015 11:52:47 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: kinsman redeemer

click to log in here


30 posted on 11/05/2015 11:52:56 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Billthedrill

A lot of folks’ mustaches are getting really, really long.


31 posted on 11/05/2015 11:53:01 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: kinsman redeemer

I don’t know, but I saw a black helicopter over your house. ;)


32 posted on 11/05/2015 11:53:04 AM PST by miserare ( "What difference does it make?"~~Benghazi Hil)
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To: Michael.SF.

Thank you.

Also, FYI, from what I’ve read the mods are aware of this issue.


33 posted on 11/05/2015 11:54:34 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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To: thackney

I had not heard that.

This used to happen to me years ago when I would cut and paste from word into my own web site. Converting it to text always worked.


34 posted on 11/05/2015 11:54:40 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Michael.SF.
I had not seen it posted, but one cannot see everything. Thanks

Well, over the last week there have been dozens of vanity posts about the issue. Several a day, in fact. I understand your missing those, if you only get to pop in once in a while.

35 posted on 11/05/2015 11:55:15 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: SamAdams76

Been doing the same. It is a pain....that’s for sure :(


36 posted on 11/05/2015 11:56:46 AM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Vermont Lt

Here is a simple demostration.

I used the sandbox thread for testing.

First post I typed, no problem.

Second post, I cut and pasted the same text directly from Free Republic and got the messed up characters.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3242857/replies?c=116


37 posted on 11/05/2015 11:58:43 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: miserare

That’s why I’m saying “shiny side OUT”.

The pilot is a Wookie. We talk to each other on FR.

“The brownies are in the frig.”

Repeat:
“The brownies are in the frig. “


38 posted on 11/05/2015 11:59:18 AM PST by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: Windflier
Understood.

I also reported my post under the "abuse" option, just in case it was overkill. Looks like they felt it was helpful, as it is still up.

Thanks again.

39 posted on 11/05/2015 12:02:02 PM PST by Michael.SF. (This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
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To: Michael.SF.

Isn’t it a font issue? Perhaps that certain font is not on FR server, so punctuation marks appear weird.


40 posted on 11/05/2015 12:02:03 PM PST by patriotsoul
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