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Seeing strange characters on the forum under Firefox 42
Vanity ^
Posted on 12/04/2015 5:12:41 PM PST by CatOwner
Seeing a lot of strange characters in some of the posts. Quotation marks, apostrophes, etc., are showing up as strange characters. I am currently using Firefox 42. Until the Source URL, I have linked a page here that displays the issue. For example, “ appears to be an open quote.
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I don't recall this being an issue in the past. I do realize that some web pages show up like this with Firefox, but I don't remember seeing it so much with Free Republic. Anyone else seeing this?
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:12:41 PM PST
by
CatOwner
To: CatOwner
there are and always will be, a lot of strange characters on Free Republic.
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:13:43 PM PST
by
stylin19a
(obama = Fredo Smart)
To: CatOwner
Yes. It is occurring with cut & paste quotation marks and marks like this -. I gather it is tough to root out the underlying problem.
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:15:23 PM PST
by
Mr Rogers
(Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
To: CatOwner
I started seeing all those strange characters about a month or so ago. I use Internet Explorer. I know others have mentioned it but I never caught what was causing it.
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:16:14 PM PST
by
Spunky
To: CatOwner
It’s been around for a while.
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:16:42 PM PST
by
Mears
To: Mr Rogers
Even my copy and paste attempt to show an example got mangled.
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:17:32 PM PST
by
CatOwner
To: stylin19a
I don't know nuthin' ... but I personally think the internet will be cluttered with crap making communication difficult
Have you tried to READ that crap with a ton of quotations and apostrophe's ???
And now THIS post just infected me with red underlined misspellings
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:17:55 PM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: Spunky
Interesting. Usually IE masks these kinds of web page issues. Seems it might be less about display the characters properly as it is the insertion of these characters in a post, as was mentioned.
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:18:45 PM PST
by
CatOwner
To: CatOwner
You can clean it up by manually removing the offending mark and typing in it’s replacement
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:19:00 PM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: knarf
THIS post just infected me with red underlined misspellings I've never seen that happen.
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:20:07 PM PST
by
McGruff
(I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction - Barack Obama)
To: stylin19a
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:20:26 PM PST
by
TruthWillWin
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: CatOwner
Are you sure you OWN your cats?
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:21:20 PM PST
by
bigbob
("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
To: CatOwner
I don't recall this being an issue in the past. I do realize that some web pages show up like this with Firefox, but I don't remember seeing it so much with Free Republic. Anyone else seeing this?
Pretty sure you’re the only one.
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:21:27 PM PST
by
867V309
(Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
To: knarf
Yeah, that part I got. It is just that some pages are really difficult to read. I suppose you get used to it.
Trying to decide if there is a way to create a userscript within Greasemonkey to trap these out. It's a bit beyond my basic understanding of userscripts.
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:21:35 PM PST
by
CatOwner
To: stylin19a
ROFLMAO!! I needed that. ;-)
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:21:39 PM PST
by
doc1019
(Out of my mind ... back in 5)
To: bigbob
Are you sure you OWN your cats? I don't know. Let me ask them! :)
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:22:17 PM PST
by
CatOwner
To: CatOwner
Since I post a daily Bible Study, with cut-and-paste Bible passages, I too have been struggling with this. I have found a solution to the problem, though it is a bit tedious and requires a little work.
Delete all the punctuation and re type it. Especially apostrophes, quote marks, and dashes.
Then check the post and see if you missed any.
Right now, we are studying the Book of Acts, which contains a LOT of dialogue. It has been taking twice as long to do my daily thread, but it looks nice when I’m done.
I use Firefox on a mac Mini.
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:22:21 PM PST
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: knarf
Specifically, edit your posts to replace all the quotation marks and apostrophes. There may be other offending punctuation marks that I’m not remembering right now.
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:23:07 PM PST
by
be-baw
(still seeking)
To: CatOwner
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:23:30 PM PST
by
csvset
( Illegitimi non carborundum)
To: stylin19a; Lazamataz
Laz must have been hanging around.
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posted on
12/04/2015 5:24:08 PM PST
by
Pelham
(Muslim immigration...the enemy is inside the wire.)
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