Perhaps some of the Freepathon $88,000 goal money will be used to correct this. We shouldn’t have to carefully review and edit every apostrophe in our posts.
Don’t count on it—I don’t know where the money goes, but it does not go to data or development costs...
Agreed. Which is why I mentioned WP. There have been numerous attacks on this site by hosts of hackers and they have managed to do considerable damage from time to time. While the damage has been fixed, some of the fixes may have created the character problem.
As I recall the last big attack involved blocking some browsers or redirecting them with a warning that this site contain malware/virus. This effected windoze users heavily with all their anti this and anti that software installed to stop their PCs from being corrupted, hacked, hijacked, and gd knows what else.
WP stops all that. and is up dated to fix any new problems. But the rub is transferring the data base intact which is supposed to be easy and sometimes is, but more often not and is better to start over - something that JR & Co may be loath to do as everything prior will be lost for good, not to mention the down time unless they have a new server they can test the thing out on before going live. That is a lot of man hours and the $88K, despite the size, may not cover the expense (WP is free).