Most of it is related to angled quotation marks, both single and double. So when one copies html with those angled marks, the symbols for those marks appear. I'll type a columnar sample of opening and closing single and double quotation marks into Word and copy them here:
Opening single quote or apostrophe: ’
Closing single quote: ‘
Opening double quote: “
Closing double quote: â€
Does that explain it for you? It is a pain to read. There are probably more of these, but you get the idea. To get rid of them, retype those particular characters within the text box when posting.
has there been a recent charset change? possibly for a database version upgrade?
I’m noticing the change in characters also. Could be a difference between what people are copying and pasting vs whats being read out of the db. just started yesterday.
jimjohn (background: Full Stack; DB / System Admin)