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Caryc

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For quite a while now, only on this forum, whenever me or anyone else uses an apostrophe in their post, it comes out as three strange characters as in the post I copied below. Am I the only one seeing this?

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Hi, Caryc: I also see the strange characters, I also use modern view. However, I do like the modern view pretty well otherwise.

Dennis M. in W. Tenn.
 
(quoted from post at 17:40:15 07/12/20) For quite a while now, only on this forum, whenever me or anyone else uses an apostrophe in their post, it comes out as three strange characters as in the post I copied below. Am I the only one seeing this?

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Yes, they have bug. They have screwed something up in the software and it looks like that character is being interpreted as some sort of special encoding.

TOH
 
I think commas, question marks, and periods are the only punctuation marks that show up properly.
 
(quoted from post at 17:38:41 07/12/20) I think commas, question marks, and periods are the only punctuation marks that show up properly.
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Have you also noticed that smiley emoticons don't show the pictures? All the smiley shows is this :)
 
(quoted from post at 19:23:08 07/12/20) It is only on the modern view that you see this. Poor attempt at programing
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it used to work. this is a result of the recent on-site custom updates.
 
(quoted from post at 19:52:13 07/12/20)
(quoted from post at 19:23:08 07/12/20) It is only on the modern view that you see this. Poor attempt at programing
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it used to work. this is a result of the recent on-site custom updates.
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What were these on-site custom updates and what were they supposed to do?
 
(quoted from post at 20:38:41 07/12/20) I think commas, question marks, and periods are the only punctuation marks that show up properly.
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Not exhaustive but do these not display properly for you?

Exclamation - !
Semicolon - ;
Quote - "
Colon - :
Left parenthesis - (
Right parenthesis- )
Underscore - _
At - @
Ampersand - &

TOH
 
(quoted from post at 17:40:15 07/12/20) For quite a while now, only on this forum, whenever me or anyone else uses an apostrophe in their post, it comes out as three strange characters as in the post I copied below. Am I the only one seeing this?

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This looks to be a fairly common coding error - the document page header is setting the wrong character set encoding. Here is the content type header I am getting in Modern view:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=[color=red:29d456dd9e][b:29d456dd9e]iso-8859-1[/b:29d456dd9e][/color:29d456dd9e]">

The character data in HTML pages are typically encoded as UTF-8 and that appears to be the case with this data. Normal ASCII characters are the same in both encodings and are displaying fine. The problem only arises on special characters like the apostrohe/accent/grave that employ a multi-byte encoding. Because the page header specifies the wrong character encoding our browsers are incorrectly displaying the multi-byte UTF-8 apostrophe character sequence as a series of 8 bit ISO-8859-1 characters. You can read a full explanation of how this happens here:

Ask Leo

TOH
 

Yep, I can see that character set under "page source" in Firefox. Now the question is how does the problem get fixed?

By the way, that was one heck of a job in finding that. Congrats to you !!!
 
(quoted from post at 10:03:10 07/13/20)
Yep, I can see that character set under "page source" in Firefox. Now the question is how does the problem get fixed?

By the way, that was one heck of a job in finding that. Congrats to you !!!
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The fix is in the hands of the programmer. I would think it is a trivial coding change. I spent 40 years writing code and this was not difficult to diagnose. I am pretty sure I have made the same mistake but it didnt hit me right off the bat.

TOH
 
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