Why are apostrophes -- or is it hyphens -- in some posts suddenly showing up as a scrambled mess ??

[eppur_se_muova]

Last edited Tue Mar 3, 2026, 10:19 PM - Edit history (2)

Lately, it seems that some peoples' posts can't handle apostrophes -- instead a hash of characters ( � � � s without the spaces) shows up. I haven't changed anything in my browser, and not all posts are doing it, so I have to wonder if this is something new that Microsoft e.g. had done to its text encodings, and that folks who are posting "smart" apostrophes, or some such, are unaware of the problem because they only read their own posts in the same browser that created them.

Any ideas ? Buehler ?


ETA: The characters I originally typed are now showing up repeated three times -- only the s does not repeat. This strikes me as very strange, and may affect DU itself.