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To: Enlightened1

Sadly I can barely read the article what is going on with the fonts and characters lately on FR?


6 posted on 11/03/2015 6:50:40 AM PST by taildragger (Not my Monkey, not my Circus...)
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To: taildragger

Yeah, I am having the same problem. It never goes away.


10 posted on 11/03/2015 6:53:38 AM PST by dforest
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[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?


20 posted on 11/03/2015 7:00:51 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: taildragger

[Sadly I can barely read the article what is going on...]

I think it is caused by WHERE you copy and paste from, it happened to me this morning when I hit preview but when I went back and typed in the exact words they were fine.


27 posted on 11/03/2015 7:11:10 AM PST by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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RE:”Sadly I can barely read the article what is going on with the fonts and characters lately on FR?”

Thanks, I was wondering if it was just my computers doing it.

Notice they are always in the bodies of the threads, where the text is copied from the sources.

32 posted on 11/03/2015 7:16:20 AM PST by sickoflibs (Donald Trump : 'It will be wonderful. It will be glorious., You will be amazed, Just wait"')
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To: taildragger

Yes! What IS going on with the chicken scratching fonts and characters lately? Very strange for FR.


34 posted on 11/03/2015 7:17:11 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: taildragger; dforest; stars & stripes forever; RetSignman; sickoflibs; RitaOK

The software is not recognizing special characters such as smart quotes, smart apostrophes, and ems (long dashes) - at least in many cases. Until this is solved, a good workaround would be to use a text editor and replace those with regular quotes, regular apostrophes, and double dashes respectively.


69 posted on 11/03/2015 1:49:22 PM PST by EveningStar
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