Vanity -wot th bloodye 'ell just happened to the formating on FR????

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[Utilizer]

Is this a bug or did someone suddenly replace some critical files in the FR server units???

[Jeff Chandler]

I h“ve no idea what you’re talking about.

[Bobalu]

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[righttackle44]

ARE YOU LOGGED IN?

[kaehurowing]

What’s the frequency Kenneth?

[Salamander]

Oh, way to go.

You just invoked a lesser demon.

;D

[Bullish]

Oh God! We’re all doomed...

Are you still logged in?

[McGruff]

Paste your text through this converter

http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html

before posting. It should do the trick. The problem is referred to as “smart quotes”.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Beware the fnords!

[smokingfrog]

It needs to be fixed at the server level.

http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP-charset

[newgeezer]

I guess we’ll have to do this until every FReeper who only logs in once a month has started a thread about it.

I log in two or three times a week and was just about to start a thread. But, instead, I did a Search and “voila!” I found this one and a bunch more.

Guess there's not an easy fix.

[sparklite2]

The fix seems to be replacing characters before posting, a sometimes tedious task.

The solution seems to be outside the limitations of FR’s Windows 95 sophistication.