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Start with the database: has there been a change in the last few weeks that has changed the database default character set, and might that be different than what the perl code outputs to the browser?

Here's a hint: the encoding isn't a problem on the forum title pages, just with you click on a link is when the issue is displayed.

Though's from the from my fellow web-dev freepers? Note: (This thread for Web-Dev experts only. All others, please lurk)

1 posted on 11/09/2015 9:06:28 AM PST by jimjohn
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I should note (full disclosure):

full lamp stack developer; senior sysadmin (linux centos/ubuntu)


2 posted on 11/09/2015 9:11:31 AM PST by jimjohn (You don't get the kind of government you want, or the kind you need. You get the kind you deserve.)
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I thought I was the only one. See them on Chrome on my desktop and even more on my Andriod.


3 posted on 11/09/2015 9:12:21 AM PST by Jack Black ( "Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the surest early warning signs of future genocide")
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Pasted from MS-Word:

Test

Grave accent (left single quote) - Code 0060: `
Acute accent (right single quote) - Code 00B4: ´
Straight up and down apostrophe - Code 0027: ‘


5 posted on 11/09/2015 9:15:19 AM PST by mbarker12474
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I’m from the NSA and I’m here to help....


7 posted on 11/09/2015 9:16:58 AM PST by Defiant (I wouldn't have to mansplain if it weren't for all those wymidiots.)
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(This thread for Web-Dev experts only. All others, please lurk)

See how that works out for ya.

9 posted on 11/09/2015 9:23:33 AM PST by don-o (I am Kenneth Carlisle - Waco 5/17/15)
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It usually occurs when you CUT AND PASTE text that contains non letter text (apostrophe, comma, colon, semi-colon, etc)


11 posted on 11/09/2015 9:36:34 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3356831/posts?page=46#46

Just the curly ones. Seriously. Straight quotes should cut and paste fine. Something went haywire after our last systems software upgrade and apparently fouled up the ms-smart character routine.

Hoping John solves the problem soon.

46 posted on 11/5/2015, 2:26:53 PM by Jim Robinson


13 posted on 11/09/2015 9:39:01 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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BTW, all you have to do to keep it from appearing in your post is to go back through any TEXT you CUT AND PASTE and delete the offending character (such as an apostrophe) and the SPACE after it (which helps identify which ones are a problem) and replace it with just an apostrophe.

Your post will then appear normally.


15 posted on 11/09/2015 9:39:20 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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Below is an example of both types of apostrophes and quotation marks in a pre-post composition AND the result after posting or previewing both:

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16 posted on 11/09/2015 9:41:59 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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Have you tried rebooting your computer. ;-p


17 posted on 11/09/2015 9:42:31 AM PST by justlittleoleme (CRUZ OR LOSE)
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Start with the database: has there been a change in the last few weeks that has changed the database default character set, and might that be different than what the perl code outputs to the browser?

This has been an on and off problem here for as long as I can remember.

18 posted on 11/09/2015 9:43:58 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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oh, so you don’t like funny characters huh? That’s racist!


25 posted on 11/09/2015 10:15:10 AM PST by Bob434
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34 posted on 11/09/2015 10:26:25 AM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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Justdontuseanypunctuationmarks


36 posted on 11/09/2015 10:28:44 AM PST by samiam5
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FR s/w is very propritary. No computer tech input from the masses desired, just $ contributions.


38 posted on 11/09/2015 10:30:51 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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Rewrite the system in C#.NET, from orbit.

It’s the only way to be sure.


39 posted on 11/09/2015 10:31:41 AM PST by Lazamataz ( If they try firearm confiscation or gun registration, I go ballistic.)
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FR s/w is very proprietary. No computer tech input from the masses desired, just $ contributions.
42 posted on 11/09/2015 10:33:52 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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About those funny characters...I thought yowere talking abot Pelosi and Feinstein. I was wrong. Carry on.


44 posted on 11/09/2015 10:36:11 AM PST by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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This thread for Web-Dev experts only. All others, please lurk

Just for that, I'm gonna comment anyway, even though I have nothing of any value, whatsoever, to add to the discussion.

Wait....yes I do. I hate posting dictators.

There....I said it. Now turn me in to the authorities.

46 posted on 11/09/2015 11:17:18 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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It’s from cutting and pasting. Not translating certain characters on cut and paste.


53 posted on 11/09/2015 1:49:12 PM PST by DouglasKC (I'm pro-choice when it comes to lion killing....)
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