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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

13 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 18 hrs ago OP

I was wondering that too Lifeafter70 18 hrs ago #1

Can you link to one? Renew Deal 17 hrs ago #7

It was earlier this afternoon Lifeafter70 17 hrs ago #9

In your browser menu canetoad 18 hrs ago #2

Thanks, I'm using Safari at the moment. Switch to Firefox for bigger jobs. nt eppur_se_muova 18 hrs ago #3

me too, since this afternoon on a thread I posted and on a very old post. bigtree 17 hrs ago #4

Is this the thread? Renew Deal 17 hrs ago #8

That was one I saw but there were others. Lifeafter70 17 hrs ago #10

Pasting one of the offending lines from that post: Renew Deal 17 hrs ago #11

Try editing that post and you'll see the issue AZJonnie 15 hrs ago #20

Just fyi ... Tasmanian Devil 16 hrs ago #15

On that page, I see the problem - I don't know what causes it. Jim__ 17 hrs ago #12

Could be tracking code that's getting passed through Renew Deal 17 hrs ago #13

You should re-post this in the DU Community Help forum. Wednesdays 17 hrs ago #5

Maybe you have a bad browser extension? Renew Deal 17 hrs ago #6

Unlikely, because Wednesdays 16 hrs ago #14

I had the same thing happen late this morning, when I cross-posted this thread highplainsdem 16 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 15 hrs ago #19

It is happening with the 'curly' style single and double quotes like Word does, and it breaks in this way AZJonnie 15 hrs ago #17

If I tried to do a 2nd edit, the 2nd set of sentences would've gotten munged up as well AZJonnie 15 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 13 hrs ago #21

In my experience, it's really likely the issue is happening during I/O with the database AZJonnie 13 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 13 hrs ago #23

MS didn't invent the characters that are the 'curly' quotes AZJonnie 13 hrs ago #24