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Renew Deal

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11. Pasting one of the offending lines from that post:
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 10:20 PM
22 hrs ago

‘Peace President’ Breaks Record for Attacking the Most Countries

https://www.thedailybeast.com/peace-president-donald-trump-breaks-record-for-attacking-the-most-countries/

Oddly, the excerpted text no longer matches the text in the article.

Here is what I pulled out of the article that is similar:

"In the same period, though, he has ordered strikes against targets across no less than seven nations—Iran, Nigeria, Venezuela, Iraq, Somalia, Syria and Yemen—at a rate that has already outstripped the total sanctioned by Joe Biden throughout the Democratic president’s four years at the White House,"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/peace-president-donald-trump-breaks-record-for-attacking-the-most-countries/

Not seeing the issue anymore

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I was wondering that too Lifeafter70 23 hrs ago #1
Can you link to one? Renew Deal 22 hrs ago #7
It was earlier this afternoon Lifeafter70 22 hrs ago #9
In your browser menu canetoad 23 hrs ago #2
Thanks, I'm using Safari at the moment. Switch to Firefox for bigger jobs. nt eppur_se_muova 23 hrs ago #3
me too, since this afternoon on a thread I posted and on a very old post. bigtree 22 hrs ago #4
Is this the thread? Renew Deal 22 hrs ago #8
That was one I saw but there were others. Lifeafter70 22 hrs ago #10
Pasting one of the offending lines from that post: Renew Deal 22 hrs ago #11
Try editing that post and you'll see the issue AZJonnie 20 hrs ago #20
Just fyi ... Tasmanian Devil 21 hrs ago #15
On that page, I see the problem - I don't know what causes it. Jim__ 22 hrs ago #12
Could be tracking code that's getting passed through Renew Deal 22 hrs ago #13
You should re-post this in the DU Community Help forum. Wednesdays 22 hrs ago #5
Maybe you have a bad browser extension? Renew Deal 22 hrs ago #6
Unlikely, because Wednesdays 21 hrs ago #14
I had the same thing happen late this morning, when I cross-posted this thread highplainsdem 21 hrs ago #16
It's caused by editing or previewing, if you just paste into a post and post it immediately it displays correctly AZJonnie 20 hrs ago #19
It is happening with the 'curly' style single and double quotes like Word does, and it breaks in this way AZJonnie 20 hrs ago #17
If I tried to do a 2nd edit, the 2nd set of sentences would've gotten munged up as well AZJonnie 20 hrs ago #18
Thanks for working all that out ! I kind of figured it was a character set issue, and guessed 'smart' quotes ... eppur_se_muova 19 hrs ago #21
In my experience, it's really likely the issue is happening during I/O with the database AZJonnie 18 hrs ago #22
Thanks ! I've only done a very, very little C programming and know nothing about DBs, servers, etc. but ... eppur_se_muova 18 hrs ago #23
MS didn't invent the characters that are the 'curly' quotes AZJonnie 18 hrs ago #24
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