Omg, I am soooooo sick of not being able to read articles. There is no good reason FR should still not be able to translate curl punctuation into something readable. Since we are expected to read this ridiculousness, the cost of the Freepathons should be cut in half. FR is only providing half the readability as before. Something needs to be done. This is really poor.
Why fix it? All you have to do is have the Anti Blog Pimp Squad browbeat people into stripping quotes from every article and every comment, using some tool on some 3rd party site. Done and done. :p