Ya gotta go back a decade and some (or thereabouts) to recapture that era.
Here, Use this.
Posted on 01/18/2016 6:31:59 PM PST by PROCON
Has anyone else noticed that the " and ' symbols that were plaguing our threads for so long are no longer present?
Woo-Hoo, Good Job to John Robinson and the Free Republic computer fix-it nerds!
Actually, you didn't need the apostrophe after the i in Nazis :-)
There is your answer.
Let's try brute-force character entities: ä ö ü õ å æ ø
Frustrating...
Not in the body of that thread and I found others.
Did you find a lot of other threads with the problem or just some?
The “ and ‘ symbols are fixed?
Ya gotta go back a decade and some (or thereabouts) to recapture that era.
Here, Use this.
It’s happening on this thread posted just 10 min ago:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3385431/posts
¡Yeb!
Tried again
Thank you. I would ry to remember to go back thru articles to change to ‘ & “ but sometimes I missed a few (or forgot!)
So thank you thank you
Just curious - from what application are you copying and pasting?
I’m no computer genius but it seems to be affecting fewer characters.
wtf how can read anything now. i need the balloons and stuff to help me make sense out some out of wacky posts./s
Below is an example of both types of apostrophes and quotation marks in a pre-post composition AND the result after posting or previewing both:
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Another solution...
Replace smart quotes with regular straight quotes:
When I post HTML to a blog, I find that smart quotes don't show up correctly, so this tool replaces smart quotes (and a few other entities) with regular quotes (or the regular entity). To use, paste the text containing the smart quotes in the top box, then hit convert and the converted text will appear in the lower box.
i think it happens on the cut and past from a post here
I’ve also been using that website to refine threads I post.
Random snip from
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Nope. Not dead yet.
You forgot strikeout!
I never have a problem when typing directly ...Copying and pasting from anything but my notepad presents a problem.
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