[CedarDave]

Just my replying to your post illustrates the problem. FR took your text with the word “it’s” and garbled it during cut and paste.

[CatOwner]

Which begs the question: How was the post you quoted able to get through unscathed? Maybe some combination of operating system and browser makes a difference?

[CatOwner]

For example, the post below contains left double quotes, right double quotes, right single quotes (apostrophes in most cases), etc., and the page displays just fine.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3370563/posts