Quotes being trashed. New for me, and quite the nuisance. ¿

[usonian]

No idea what's going on unless it has to do with the computer inserting "smart quotes"

I read the earlier post on this.

I restart the computer daily,(1) and just restarted Firefox.

(1) If I just turn off the monitor, the attached drives unmount .... So just shut down at night.

Hoping that some detective with fewer backlogged chores and bills to pay can figure this out.

I normally tell the computer not to substitute smart quotes (nor any other doo-dads)

[dweller]

1. I think it has something to do

With editing your post.

I noted posts with glyphs were most of the time edited .
If you attempt to edit your post , expect the glyphs to show up .


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[usonian]

3. I almost always edit posts. Things change rapidly, and well, I do make the occasional typo.

Maybe it's text editing code on DU's end.

I'll keep trying.

Sometimes, I use GhostText, which mirrors my text in a straight text editor (crash prevention) and I'll experiment with that. Yikes I have important chores to do. Damn computers will eat up your day.

Seriously, if I want orange juice, I have to clear some stuff I was sorting through in the pantry and which ended up outside the fridge door.

Thanks for the input.

[dweller]

4. Here's a test post

I will post it twice and edit the 2nd post .
The glyphs should be in the 2nd post .



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[dweller]

5. Here's a test post

I will post it twice and edit the 2nd post .
The glyphs should be in the 2nd post


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Annd didn’t work 🤔

[dweller]

6. Oh well

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I have to use �quotes�


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Yeh thats it

[Charlie Chapulin]

2. I'm glad it's not just me...

…I was wondering about that.

[EarlG]

7. I think this has something to do with

a behind the scenes change we made not too long ago in our firewall configuration. After that change, the garbled text problem occurred. I disabled the change recently (for an unrelated reason), and the problem seemed to go away. This morning I re-enabled the change, and voila, it seems to be affecting things again.

Bottom line, I’ll disable this change again and see if that fixes the problem.

[usonian]

8. Many thanks for all you do.