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
That is a quick solution and I will try it next time with notepad. Thanks!!
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.