[sargon]

I think they are supposed to be a code for apostrophes and other symbol for quotation marks, but why am I seeing them?

It's some kind of utf-8 character encoding issue, I believe. There's probably a conflict between the content that people are posting, and the character encoding of the html page itself.

Such issues often involve apostrophes and the like.

[cynwoody]

It's some kind of utf-8 character encoding issue, I believe. There's probably a conflict between the content that people are posting, and the character encoding of the html page itself.

Nope. The pages are set to the proper text-encoding, UTF-8.

What's happening is that the server is mangling the text on input. See #55 above.