Web site to fix punctuation formatting in Free Republic posts

January 15, 2015 | me

[dynoman]

I have windows 7 and never saw the problem until windows 10 rolled out. Maybe the timing is a coincidence.

I’ve cut and pasted straight quotes from FR and had the correct the hieroglyphics.

[erod]

I use Mac OS X and I still get the funky characters.

[HomerBohn]

I’ve been using this site, but why did the problem pop up all of a sudden?

[HomerBohn]

When this problem first cropped up, JR said they were working on a fix. That was before Thanksgiving.

[HomerBohn]

Me too

[PapaBear3625]

Hoping John solves the problem soon.
46 posted on 11/5/2015, 2:26:53 PM by Jim Robinson

It's been two months. Does JohnRob have any timeline?

[DUMBGRUNT]

As lowly linux user, I still see the odd characters.

My guess is the choice of character encoding has changed?

[mountn man]

As lowly linux user, I still see the odd characters.

I've known you for 16-17 years.
You've always hung out with strange characters.

[DUMBGRUNT]

I won’t point any fingers, but it should be noted that, birds of a feather flock together.

Or so they say.

[Scutter]

No way it’s a Windows 10 problem. This site runs on Linux. I can repro the issue by copying abd pasting a post from my iPad. No Windows involved there.

You Windows bashers amaze me...

[publius911]

This is not a "fix."
If it's not transparent, with no additional work by hundreds of thousands of visitors, it's not a fix!

[publius911]

This is not a "fix."
If it's not transparent, with no additional work by hundreds of thousands of visitors, it's not a fix!

[Salvation]

Wasn’t it some kind of wacky virus?

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

I may be totally wrong here, but I am wondering if Jim has tried using a regular closing on the charset meta tag instead of the XHTML version. In other words, instead of the closing tag looking like this /> just using > without the slash?

It might be worth a try.

Please forgive me, Jim, if I am beating a dead horse here.

[TruthWillWin]

“few weeks ago...”??? This has been going on for months.

[Charles Henrickson]

I use this before posting articles:

http://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.html

Only takes a few seconds to copy and paste.

[Charles Henrickson]

Well, that’s the same site I linked. GMTA.

[mountn man]

I won't point any fingers, but it should be noted that, birds of a feather flock together.

CAAAWW CAAAWW

[dynoman]

I’m not a Windows basher, I noticed the problem blow up when Windows 10 rolled out. That’s all. Not saying I’m right.

[Marcella]

I am sick of fixing each individual wrong character when I copy a poster's statement at the top to show what I am answering, or copy and post part of an article, and tired of fixing every possessive that requires a ‘, such as “candidate's” and every contraction of a word I write, such as “won't”.

As of right now, I am going to start leave off the quotes “ and contractions ‘. It takes a long time to “fix” the symbol problems in a long post.

When I went to university, besides getting a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology/Psychological Examining, I got a minor in English and Business Administration and it just irritates me to have mistakes in writing. However, until this symbol thing is fixed, I'm leaving off the symbols that screw up.