I haven't been on ATS for sometime, but when I logged in and reviewed some of my previous posts in the collabrative fiction section, I noticed all my
quotes were changed to question marks. Any idea why? Very odd.
[edit on 10-1-2005 by loam]
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I remember seeing a post by SO somewhere that addressed that issue...
It has do to with the server switchover...I'll see if I can find it...
edit:hmmm - can't seem to find it...
edit 2: I've also noticed these symbols - � - popping up here and there...or is that what you're talking about loam??
[edit on 1/10/2005 by EnronOutrunHomerun]
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If you copy that synbol and paste it into a search engine like Yahoo...It breaks it down into this:
& # 655 33 ; (without the spaces)
Which is called a Unicode value...and that's about as much as I know on that end.....lol
[edit on 1/10/2005 by EnronOutrunHomerun]
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I had a similar problem, but not in ATS. Mine was with the Pixy Folk site that I set up a few years ago and recently updated.
I can only assume its caused by control characters appearing in the original code (I wrote the site using text files converted to HTML)
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The new server is not configured to accept "special characters" such as those created when you copy-and-paste (without attention to detail) from
Microsoft Word. "Curly Quotes" and similar Microsoft Word baddies are a terrible thing for a site with an automated XML RSS feed.
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