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New forums change apostrophes into question marks?

by EdHannigan Oct 12, 2010 3:01AM PDT

Like so:

Geert Wilders? trial in the Netherlands

Any fix?

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Sounds like that other bug.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Oct 12, 2010 3:02AM PDT

Something the letter d gets mangled.

document.

Bob

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Also omits certoinn characters...

by EdHannigan Oct 12, 2010 10:18PM PDT

Like the copyright symbol ?

U00A9

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It's a known bug...

by John.Wilkinson Oct 12, 2010 3:30AM PDT

If you type directly into the forum submission box, you're fine, but the bug arises if you copy-and-paste text from various programs into the submission box. The engineers are looking into it and will hopefully be able to push out a fix once the freeze is over.

John

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