You are right.
Pardon my messing up.
I’ve tried to find out how to get rid of the quotation marks turning into alien ‘glyphs, however, I can’t find the article / instructions under the HTML sandbox.
When you have the time, please let me know how I can clean up affected posts, and prevent further cut n paste alien glyphs from making their way into posts.
BTW: I use a Samsung Android Smartphone to post, and I don’t recall having alien quotation glyph problems prior to people complaining the problem several months ago.
Thanks,
Scott
-- Note where they are in the text, which will be where a hyphen, or an em-dash, or a question mark, or a quotation mark appears in the original text.
-- Then go to the bottom, click on the button labeled "Edit." The editable text function will then come back.
-- Now go into your text, backspace over each offending mark one by one, and reenter the mark back in using the ASCII text character which the Posting Form editor supplies for it.
-- When you think you are done, press "Preview" again to see how your revised text now appears as it will look if/when it is finally posted to the Forum.
-- Read through the previewed text to see if you have missed a character that still needs to be replaced with an ASCII equivalent.
-- Then go back to the "Edit" form and retype the one you missed.
-- Keep on cycling back and forth until the text appears the way it should be in the "Preview" stage.
-- When you are satisfied that the text is the way it should be, then you are done. Now go to the bottom, click on the button labeled "Post," and the article will go into the Forum for everyone to read.
The article will appear, as you and others wished it to be: now readable.
(Of course, while you are editing you will also put in the HTML tags that mark the ends of the original paragraphs, or reproduce portions of the text so that they appear italicized, or bolded, etc. as in the original, so that your final presentation mimics the author's intended format.)
You might want to conduct a trial exercise in this methodical replacement, using the Posting Form and some sample text pasted in the "Body of Thread" box, without actually posting it. Just quit by exiting from this Form without actually posting the sample text to the Forum. But use this method next time you do want to submit another article, eh?
Respectfully --