Posted on 12/04/2015 5:12:41 PM PST by CatOwner
Seeing a lot of strange characters in some of the posts. Quotation marks, apostrophes, etc., are showing up as strange characters. I am currently using Firefox 42. Until the Source URL, I have linked a page here that displays the issue. For example, “ appears to be an open quote.
I’ve noticed that if I cut and paste it works OK, UNLESS I hit PREVIEW, then post from there, I then have a problem.
Stop micro-aggressing me. </s
Yes. It is so bad on FR that I refuse to read post that are riddled with this crap.
It’s a test to see if you can read between the lines & @ $
Hey....! LOL!
It’s been going on since October 28th.
Welcome to the party, pal.
I haven't tried it LTOS, but you should be able to paste into a plain-text editor, which should convert the high ascii - then copy out of the plain text editor to paste into posting input here on FR.
Notepad is plain text. (Win+R, type notepad)
WordPad has a feature to save as plain text. (Win+R, Type write), which might work if notepad does not.
More robust text editors are freely available online (Notepad2, Notepad++, PSPad, ConText, among many others), many with search and replace features as a final option.
This happens with Safari also
The root problem is software bloat. They've added way to many features to browsers and HTML, and now they broke the basics of displaying text. Why use software that can run in 680K bytes when 1.2 gigabytes will do the same job?
I've tried to clean up some of my cut/paste but some of the characters that cause the aberrations are hidden and if you don't delete the seeming empty space that holds one, it shows up.
Finally gave up
Good advice...but I am quite primitive in my computer skills.
I had a tech-genius-live-in-consultant (My late husband) who used to do all my stuff for me, but my upgrades stopped short in 2011 when he died.
Whatever I get to work for me in the context of my truncated skill, well...works for me! LOLOL.
:-)
Anyway, I found it less than user-friendly to C&P text for a reply, then find garbage characters in my response. I ended up writing a userscript for Greasemonkey (I'm using Firefox) that converts the oddball character sequences into their proper characters. For example, doing it this way I can continue to display left and right double quotes instead of the generic double quote.
The good news to using the userscript is that the text corrections are retained when I perform a C&P into a reply. The bad news is I won't know when/if the software is ever corrected.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3371488/posts
For some reason, not all of the posts with word processor type punctuation have this problem. Not sure why.
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