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Keep getting !!!8217; instead of '

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  • Lizabeth21
    Lizabeth21 Posts: 161 Forumite
    Whoops (auto corrected) that one slipped through.
  • maninthestreet
    maninthestreet Posts: 16,127 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    8217 is Unicode Character 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK'.
    It's represented by two bytes, X'2019', which is decimal 8217.
    Single byte character sets do not include this character.
    "You were only supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off!!"
  • AnotherJoe
    AnotherJoe Posts: 19,622 Forumite
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    Its got worse and more inexplicable.

    Just made a post from an iPad, all OK.

    Made few edits from the same iPad, all the exclamation marks came back with a vengeance. had to re-edit on computer.
  • badmemory
    badmemory Posts: 9,525 Forumite
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    Did this start happening when they got rid of the spam button to stop threads being deleted?
  • Cornucopia
    Cornucopia Posts: 16,470 Forumite
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    I suspect that Unicode characters have been turned off in a bid to prevent non-English character-based Spam.
  • Glad
    Glad Posts: 18,926 Senior Ambassador
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    It seems to be a known bug if you have Apple Smart Punctuation enabled, however I'm not sure why it's suddenly become a problem on MSE

    but it could be as Cornucopia has posted above?
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  • Cornucopia
    Cornucopia Posts: 16,470 Forumite
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    edited 4 February 2018 at 6:27PM
    Here's some Arabic text as a test:-

    !!!1573;!!!1606; !!!1588;!!!1575;!!!1569; !!!1575;!!!1604;!!!1604;!!!1607;
  • Misslayed
    Misslayed Posts: 15,366 Senior Ambassador
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    I've turned smart punctuation off on my iPad, not happened again.
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  • AnotherJoe
    AnotherJoe Posts: 19,622 Forumite
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    edited 4 February 2018 at 9:42PM
    Let!!!8217;s try that.
    The apostrophe above inserted by IOS

    Now let!!!8217;s try it again.
    apostrophe inserted by me

    Now with SP turned off
    Let's try that.

    Very weird. So even if you insert the punctuation yourself, if SP is on that causes the problem.
  • Sayschezza
    Sayschezza Posts: 744 Forumite
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    I am getting it too. Using iPad and guess it may be from the suggestive text bar.
    All that clutter used to be money
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