[Sadly I can barely read the article what is going on with the fonts and characters lately on FR?]
Awhile back I noticed what seemed to be deliberate punctuation errors on the cute story, cute saying emails that were forwarded to me by friends. I see the same kind of errors on the posted emails.
Could there be some kind of tracking code that is being interjected into the news articles? Or, could it be the automatic edit is not turned off when the article is put to print?
Megyn Kelly
Go back to your feminist friends.
Traitor!!!
Still rings in my head the Trump set up questions she asked him. Playing right into the Socialist mantra War on Women.
“Could there be some kind of tracking code that is being interjected into the news articles? Or, could it be the automatic edit is not turned off when the article is put to print?”
No, the truth is more mundane than that. Those funny characters are supposed to be curly quotation marks. You know, some quotation marks show up as two straight lines, but some show up as curved? Well computers represent those with two different numeric codes. There is some issue going on with the way FR’s software is parsing that “curly quote” code. Instead of showing the proper quotation marks, it is showing a funny looking character instead.
This is not an uncommon kind of error in programming, because there are several different sets of codes in use for representing text. So if you expect one system to be used, and people are pasting text that was encoded with another system, then you get funny results like this. The letters, numbers, and common punctuation marks may all translate fine, but more rarely used characters, like the “curly quotes” often get “mistranslated” by the software.