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AZJonnie

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17. It is happening with the 'curly' style single and double quotes like Word does, and it breaks in this way

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Wed Mar 4, 2026, 12:19 AM

13 hrs ago

when the user Edits (or Previews) their post.

ï¿½Here is a sentence encased in double quotes done on a PC in Word and pasted to DUï¿½
ï¿½Here is a sentence encased in double quotes done on a PC in Word and pasted to DUï¿½

If I post that directly without preview, the proper characters show. But if I preview first, when I get to the preview window, they're all four munged up with 3 characters that are NOT quotes.

I EDITED the above content just now, and now I'll paste the same two sentences in that I posted the first time:
“Here is a sentence encased in double quotes done on a PC in Word and pasted to DU”
‘Here is a sentence encased in double quotes done on a PC in Word and pasted to DU’

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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 16 hrs ago OP

I was wondering that too Lifeafter70 16 hrs ago #1

Can you link to one? Renew Deal 16 hrs ago #7

It was earlier this afternoon Lifeafter70 15 hrs ago #9

In your browser menu canetoad 16 hrs ago #2

Thanks, I'm using Safari at the moment. Switch to Firefox for bigger jobs. nt eppur_se_muova 16 hrs ago #3

me too, since this afternoon on a thread I posted and on a very old post. bigtree 16 hrs ago #4

Is this the thread? Renew Deal 15 hrs ago #8

That was one I saw but there were others. Lifeafter70 15 hrs ago #10

Pasting one of the offending lines from that post: Renew Deal 15 hrs ago #11

Try editing that post and you'll see the issue AZJonnie 13 hrs ago #20

Just fyi ... Tasmanian Devil 14 hrs ago #15

On that page, I see the problem - I don't know what causes it. Jim__ 15 hrs ago #12

Could be tracking code that's getting passed through Renew Deal 15 hrs ago #13

You should re-post this in the DU Community Help forum. Wednesdays 16 hrs ago #5

Maybe you have a bad browser extension? Renew Deal 16 hrs ago #6

Unlikely, because Wednesdays 15 hrs ago #14

I had the same thing happen late this morning, when I cross-posted this thread highplainsdem 14 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 13 hrs ago #19

It is happening with the 'curly' style single and double quotes like Word does, and it breaks in this way AZJonnie 13 hrs ago #17

If I tried to do a 2nd edit, the 2nd set of sentences would've gotten munged up as well AZJonnie 13 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 12 hrs ago #21

In my experience, it's really likely the issue is happening during I/O with the database AZJonnie 11 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 11 hrs ago #23

MS didn't invent the characters that are the 'curly' quotes AZJonnie 11 hrs ago #24