Apostrophe problems
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Windows 7 on Google Chrome, still happening.0
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http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/09/26/tips-turn-off-ios-11-smart-punctuation-to-avoid-data-entry-problems
Done that. Seemed to work.
Have impression that it only works one time. I went back to the correct one letter in a post I posted this morning. After which the same punctuation rubbish came back, even though smart punctuation was switched off.
So looks like you still have to get your posts right first time and not need to correct them.Sorry my posts so long - not time write shorter ones.0 -
It may be ios (and anything else that puts in smart quotes and apostrophes) that is causing the problem, but it is all of us who are seeing the problem - it even happens sometimes when quoting un-mangled posts that the quotation's apostrophes are replaced by '!!!8217;' - which is the entity form '& #8217;' (actually right quote rather than apostophe) with the '& #' treated as invalid characters. [Extra spaces added to avoid mangling]
The real problem is in the filtering software of the boards. Please get it fixed.Eco Miser
Saving money for well over half a century0 -
I'm using Windows 10 and Chrome and have been having this problem with apostrophes for a week. The fix doesn't work for non-iOS devices.
Something has obviously happened with the MSE software somewhere along the line.2019 Wins
1/25
£2019 in 2019
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I can!!!8217;t any reference to this on other forums, this is a 100% MSE issue, so if anyone is listening in MSE world, could you please pull your finger out and fix it.0
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Keep_pedalling wrote: »I can!!!8217;t any reference to this on other forums, this is a 100% MSE issue, so if anyone is listening in MSE world, could you please pull your finger out and fix it.
Very strange that MSE are not responding to requests for a fix to this silly problem.
Are they all hiding or have they all been sacked for messing up the website ??
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This official MSE first post from back in 2016 is showing the problem:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5535256
So it's not a user issue0 -
Test to see if I'm having this problem.0
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Windows 10 pro, Chrome.
Seeing a fair few weird numbers
!!!8217;
!!!56833;
!!!55357;
I have just compared a post in both firefox and Chrome, numbers there in bothThe way things are going, soon we are all going to be victims of something or other.
Who will we blame then?0 -
Iwanttobefree wrote: »I have just compared a post in both firefox and Chrome, numbers there in both
As a test, can anyone see a heart here? >!!!9829;< I can't, even in code view.Eco Miser
Saving money for well over half a century0
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