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eppur_se_muova

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23. Thanks ! I've only done a very, very little C programming and know nothing about DBs, servers, etc. but ...

Reply to AZJonnie (Reply #22)

Wed Mar 4, 2026, 02:22 AM

21 hrs ago

it's nice to know it's something rational and technological, not unhappy demons or, worse, hostile mobile code. My browser is set to the "default" character set; I think I'm going to force it to UTF-8 for a while and see what happens.

In my experience, saying "it's Microsoft's fault" at the beginning of the process often saves time, so that was my first thought. Didn't they invent smart quotes ??

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Why are apostrophes -- or is it hyphens -- in some posts suddenly showing up as a scrambled mess ?? [View all] eppur_se_muova Yesterday OP

I was wondering that too Lifeafter70 Yesterday #1

Can you link to one? Renew Deal Yesterday #7

It was earlier this afternoon Lifeafter70 Yesterday #9

In your browser menu canetoad Yesterday #2

Thanks, I'm using Safari at the moment. Switch to Firefox for bigger jobs. nt eppur_se_muova Yesterday #3

me too, since this afternoon on a thread I posted and on a very old post. bigtree Yesterday #4

Is this the thread? Renew Deal Yesterday #8

That was one I saw but there were others. Lifeafter70 Yesterday #10

Pasting one of the offending lines from that post: Renew Deal Yesterday #11

Try editing that post and you'll see the issue AZJonnie 22 hrs ago #20

Just fyi ... Tasmanian Devil Yesterday #15

On that page, I see the problem - I don't know what causes it. Jim__ Yesterday #12

Could be tracking code that's getting passed through Renew Deal Yesterday #13

You should re-post this in the DU Community Help forum. Wednesdays Yesterday #5

Maybe you have a bad browser extension? Renew Deal Yesterday #6

Unlikely, because Wednesdays Yesterday #14

I had the same thing happen late this morning, when I cross-posted this thread highplainsdem Yesterday #16

It's caused by editing or previewing, if you just paste into a post and post it immediately it displays correctly AZJonnie 22 hrs ago #19

It is happening with the 'curly' style single and double quotes like Word does, and it breaks in this way AZJonnie 23 hrs ago #17

If I tried to do a 2nd edit, the 2nd set of sentences would've gotten munged up as well AZJonnie 23 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 21 hrs ago #21

In my experience, it's really likely the issue is happening during I/O with the database AZJonnie 21 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 21 hrs ago #23

MS didn't invent the characters that are the 'curly' quotes AZJonnie 20 hrs ago #24