Posted on 12/18/2015 10:39:16 PM PST by TBP
Can we please fix the system here so that when you copy material, you don't have to go through and change all the special symbols? It's getting cumbersome.
We must all learn Ferengi and *like* it.
:)
I’m seeing this on more websites recently. It must be something native to some recent upgrade that is slowly propagating.
You are not having fun?
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Are you logged in?
join the $1.00 a day donor club.....that will fix it..../sarcasm....
it is getting f’ing old i agree....but hey....it’s not our house as I’ve always been told....
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Install this user script to clean up the garbage characters when viewing a page and this user script to allow you to post arbitrary Unicode without it appearing as garbage.
The bug is that the FR server mangles posted Unicode characters outside the original 7-bit ASCII range. Such characters are uploaded in UTF-8, which encodes each such special character as two or more bytes in the hex 80-ff range. Instead of leaving such sequences unmodified, as it used to do, the server replaces each byte of each sequence with its corresponding HTML entity (as opposed to the entity for the sequence as a whole, which would be harmless but unnecessary). That results in a mess on the screen, but also allows the original content to be reconstructed. Which is what my user scripts do.
Yep, “UTF-8” is propagating pretty fast since 2007:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#/media/File:UnicodeGrow2b.png
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
Add a little sildenafil citrate, and out pops “-----.” !
UTF-8 is a brilliant invention. It allows us to represent all the world's characters, while retaining single-byte representation for good, clean, US-ASCII! Straight quotes are a byte each, but curly quotes are three bytes.
Thank you cynwoody!
From now on I am going directly to you. :)
You can use this little nifty site to clean up a paragraph, but if longer (includes spaces) then you lose the space and have to manually re-add the spaces. So it makes copy and paste of long article not worth the time.
http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html
The good ole ASCII art days, when your phone and modem were actually two separate pieces of equipment.
How silly of me!
Wait...What?
(My only computer is an iphone 3)
I’m getting sick of it as well. One would think that with an operating budget in excess of $350,000 a year, there would be sufficient resources to have this matter resolved.
(Special symbols are extra fun!)
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