Apostrophe problems

fozmcfc · 9 February 2018 at 5:24PM

Windows 7 on Google Chrome, still happening.

Ted_Bloke · 10 February 2018 at 4:02PM

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.

Eco_Miser · 10 February 2018 at 6:41PM

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.

LadyMorticia · 10 February 2018 at 11:10PM

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.

Keep_pedalling · 16 February 2018 at 11:00AM

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.

firefox1956 · 16 February 2018 at 12:44PM

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 ??

:D:D

Mobeer · 16 February 2018 at 7:46PM

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 issue

westv · 17 February 2018 at 10:54AM

Test to see if I'm having this problem.

Iwanttobefree · 17 February 2018 at 11:29AM

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 both

Eco_Miser · 18 February 2018 at 2:23PM

Iwanttobefree wrote: »

I have just compared a post in both firefox and Chrome, numbers there in both

It's my belief that the forum software is changing the leading & and # of HTML entities for unicode characters (smart quotes, emojis, and most non-ASCII characters) into actual exclamation marks, which are seen, together with the numeric part of the entity, and closing semicolon, by everyone, in all browsers.
As a test, can anyone see a heart here? >!!!9829;< I can't, even in code view.

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