Strange characters showing up in FR posts -- here's a workaround

11/11/15

[granite]

bfl

[bornred]

If I paste Unicode character 2019 into my reply and hit preview, the server sees the UTF-8 encoding e2 80 99 and (mis)translates each byte into a separate HTML entity: ’

If it was working correctly, it would send back something like ’

The POST is being sent as UTF-8, and the result is coming back in UTF-8, so the scripts on the backend are probably just using the wrong charset (iso-8859-1?) to decode the form data.

This may help: http://ahinea.com/en/tech/perl-unicode-struggle.html

[Fundamentally Fair]

I put my response in Notepad, then paste.

[ru4liberty]

My posts look fine until I click "review" to check for typos and/or formatting errors. That's when it tends to go bonkers with all the weird characters.

[KevinB]

Ping

[markomalley]

each user would run this program on each article they read (assuming they wish to do so). Yes or No?

Each article he posts.

[unixfox]

If I paste Unicode character 2019 into my reply and hit preview, the server sees the UTF-8 encoding e2 80 99 and (mis)translates each byte into a separate HTML entity: ’

I think you may be on to something. Maybe the SQL database is somehow using the wrong charset?

Who knows.

[Enlightened1]

Use this for now,

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

[plain talk]

OK. Got it now. Thanks!

[V K Lee]

Thank you, Mark. Rather than taking the time to learn Greek, I’ll just attempt to remember to use the * for the moment. This all began when an infected link was posted a few weeks ago IIRC It is annoying, but nothing more than inconvenient in attempting to decipher. Too old to learn another language and too little time to spend in doing so.

[BlueDragon]

There is strange, and there is stranger.

Stranger In A Strange Land (Leon Russell And The Shelter People) - (1971)

Exodus 2:22