[Michael.SF.]

If you do a cut and paste from the article you are posting, the symbols appear.

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.

[DeFault User]

Which browser are you using? I’m getting the same crap in Chrome.

[butlerweave]

Arabic ?

[demshateGod]

It seemed to come after what seemed to be a cyber attack.

[Vermont Lt]

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.

[amorphous]

It's our new outreach programming.

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[Billthedrill]

Don't erase those. They're encrypted messages to...uh...The Resistance...

There, I've said too much.

[deport]

Multiple threads on this problem over the past week or so.

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.

[SamAdams76]

That’s what I started doing. It’s a little time consuming. Sometimes it’s easier just to hand type it in there myself.

[smokingfrog]

#JohnCanFixIt

[Windflier]

This problem has been discussed ad infinitum on the forum, recently. Apparently, John and Jim are working on a fix.

[Gamecock]

It’s not just you. 4-5 people a day are staring threads about this.

[deport]

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

[John Valentine]

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

[SpaceBar]

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.

[FourtySeven]

Thank you.

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

[patriotsoul]

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

[Fester Chugabrew]

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[TBP]

I agree with you. Thanks.