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Hopefully this little tutorial will help some out.
1 posted on 11/11/2015 6:35:44 PM PST by markomalley
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Strange characters showing up in FR posts — here’s a workaround
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Strange characters showing up in FR posts for a long time, ever since I have been here.— I can name a few of the odder ones.


2 posted on 11/11/2015 6:39:07 PM PST by Chickensoup (We lose our freedoms one surrender at a time)
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I h“ve no idea what you’re talking about.


5 posted on 11/11/2015 6:41:21 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Evil, in this world, comes from sin. Not from income disparity or 'climate change.' - Dr.Cernea)
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I was asking about the problem yesterday and Jim said John is on it. It started after we got that malware warning here, and it may or may not be related to that.


8 posted on 11/11/2015 6:44:35 PM PST by Yaelle
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When & why did it start? I was in the hospital and when I returned it was already going on.


11 posted on 11/11/2015 6:46:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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Mark — thanks. I have noticed these special characters showing up over the last week or so.

So are you suggesting each user perform this operation on each post they read .. or each block of text they post .. or what? I am confused as to what you are suggesting.


14 posted on 11/11/2015 6:47:24 PM PST by plain talk
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Also ' for ' (apostrophe)
15 posted on 11/11/2015 6:50:13 PM PST by NonValueAdded (In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act)
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Ain’t nobody got time for dat.


20 posted on 11/11/2015 6:54:05 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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Here’s the tool I used today in posting an article. It worked great, and it was quick and easy:

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


21 posted on 11/11/2015 6:54:23 PM PST by Charles Henrickson
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To: markomalley
There are problems with more than the characters you listed.

All of the special characters in my signature block are workarounds.

For example, é, is correctly rendered by inserting &_eacute; (without the underscore) in the HTML.

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

28 posted on 11/11/2015 7:18:24 PM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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Nice find. Easy to use. Thanks.


31 posted on 11/11/2015 7:34:47 PM PST by Ray76
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To: markomalley; dayglored; ShadowAce; unixfox; All

Easier just to go here:

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


32 posted on 11/11/2015 7:41:41 PM PST by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the muzlims trying to kill them)
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if you have windows paste first in notepad then copy paste from the notepad text.


39 posted on 11/11/2015 8:12:08 PM PST by Phillyred
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bfl


40 posted on 11/11/2015 8:41:41 PM PST by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left - Ecclest 10:2)
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bfl


41 posted on 11/11/2015 8:43:11 PM PST by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left - Ecclest 10:2)
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If I paste Unicode character 2019 into my reply and hit preview, the server sees the UTF-8 encoding e2 80 99 and (mis)translates each byte into a separate HTML entity: ’

If it was working correctly, it would send back something like ’

The POST is being sent as UTF-8, and the result is coming back in UTF-8, so the scripts on the backend are probably just using the wrong charset (iso-8859-1?) to decode the form data.

This may help: http://ahinea.com/en/tech/perl-unicode-struggle.html
42 posted on 11/11/2015 9:18:11 PM PST by bornred
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I put my response in Notepad, then paste.


43 posted on 11/11/2015 9:21:41 PM PST by Fundamentally Fair (Pictionary at the Rorschach's tonight!)
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Thank you, Mark. Rather than taking the time to learn Greek, I’ll just attempt to remember to use the * for the moment. This all began when an infected link was posted a few weeks ago IIRC It is annoying, but nothing more than inconvenient in attempting to decipher. Too old to learn another language and too little time to spend in doing so.


50 posted on 11/12/2015 7:42:36 AM PST by V K Lee (u TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP to TRIUMPH Follow the lead MAKE AMERICA GREAT)
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