Posted on 01/15/2016 6:41:54 AM PST by reaganaut1
I have found that the site Replace smart quotes with regular straight quotes fixes the problem Free Republic recently has with quotes and dashes. For example, a New York Times article As Germany Welcomes Migrants, Sexual Attacks in Cologne Point to a New Reality that when originally pasted looks like this:
COLOGNE, Germany — In early December, the Cologne police made their New Year’s Eve preparations. Drawing on the previous year’s experience, they identified their biggest worry as pickpocketing and fireworks among the crowds. So they increased their holiday deployment, to 142 from 88, concentrating on the banks of the Rhine River, where revelers traditionally gather for a giant fireworks display.
As 2016 neared on Dec. 31, however, some 1,500 men, including some newly arrived asylum seekers and many other immigrants, had instead assembled around Cologne’s train station. Drunk and dismissive of the police, they took advantage of an overwhelmed force to sexually assault and rob hundreds of people, according to police reports, shocking Germany and stoking anxieties over absorbing refugees across Europe.
“We were just pressed on all sides by people,†recalled one victim, Johanna, 18, who agreed to speak by telephone from Lake Constance, Germany, where she lives, only if her last name was not used, fearing hostility, particularly over social media. “I was grabbed continually. I have never experienced such a thing in any German city.â€
becomes this
COLOGNE, Germany -- In early December, the Cologne police made their New Year's Eve preparations. Drawing on the previous year's experience, they identified their biggest worry as pickpocketing and fireworks among the crowds. So they increased their holiday deployment, to 142 from 88, concentrating on the banks of the Rhine River, where revelers traditionally gather for a giant fireworks display.
As 2016 neared on Dec. 31, however, some 1,500 men, including some newly arrived asylum seekers and many other immigrants, had instead assembled around Cologne's train station. Drunk and dismissive of the police, they took advantage of an overwhelmed force to sexually assault and rob hundreds of people, according to police reports, shocking Germany and stoking anxieties over absorbing refugees across Europe.
"We were just pressed on all sides by people," recalled one victim, Johanna, 18, who agreed to speak by telephone from Lake Constance, Germany, where she lives, only if her last name was not used, fearing hostility, particularly over social media. "I was grabbed continually. I have never experienced such a thing in any German city."
Smart Quotes are Stupid!!!! I said it yea!!!
What I still don’t understand is why this suddenly started happening a few weeks ago. What changed?
If you favor straight quotes, you are homophobic.
‘Straight’ quotes?? That’s homophobic!!
You can c&p from FP posts and the formatting problem shows up.
I still think it’s a windows 10 problem. That’s when it showed up. Some where there’s a server that’s set for a different font.
There is only one website on the Internet that needs to fix Free Republic’s problem with character encoding. That website is freerepublic.com.
While it is good to inform posters of a workaround for the BUG on this site, the real solution is to fix the BUG, not have users jump through hoops to use the website.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3356831/posts?page=46#46
Just the curly ones. Seriously. Straight quotes should cut and paste fine. Something went haywire after our last systems software upgrade and apparently fouled up the ms-smart character routine.
Hoping John solves the problem soon.
46 posted on 11/5/2015, 2:26:53 PM by Jim Robinson
(Yes, that was an intentional opening)
MaY i QuOtE yOu oN tHatt?
“I still think it’s a windows 10 problem.”
Not on the user side — I have had the problem with punctuation formatting using Windows 7, 8.1, and 10.
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I never saw it on FR until windows 10 rolled out. I’m using Windows 7.
I like strange characters.
What’s so “smart” about quotes that can render the text unreadable?
http://blog.luminoso.com/2012/08/20/fix-unicode-mistakes-with-python/
Isolate where the code is jumbling the characters and most of the code has already been written for you to fix it.
What is this...the second or third thread this week on how to fix a stupid problem that shouldn’t be a concern for a website in 2016? Sheesh.
Yeah; I’ve been using the linked site for a few weeks now when posting on FR. It doesn’t “fix” the problem; it’s simply a work-around. The FR web people need to deal with the glitch at that level.
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