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Title: My computer has stopped recognizing apostraphes
Post by: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on February 27, 2010, 05:52:38 PM

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Now, I'm not sure what icon you guys see in the quote box, but it's supposed to be a quotation mark. Recently, my computer has started seeing them as a white question mark surrounded by a black diamond whenever I or somebody else pastes text from a word processing document. Even stories that used to render perfectly, like my Darwin's Soldiers stories, have filled with black-diamond question marks that make things ridiculously hard to read.

Is there a way to fix this?

Title: My computer has stopped recognizing apostraphes
Post by: DarkHououmon on February 27, 2010, 05:54:31 PM

I see it as a quotation mark.

As for what's wrong, I dunno. Maybe a keyboard issue?

Title: My computer has stopped recognizing apostraphes
Post by: jedi472 on February 27, 2010, 06:08:19 PM

My computer has this problem with some webpages. I believe the error is code-based.

Title: My computer has stopped recognizing apostraphes
Post by: Serris on February 27, 2010, 06:41:48 PM

I see a quotation mark.

Try switching the character encoding until the problem vanishes.

Also, your latest update to Pavlov's Checkmate gave me this weird symbol:

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Ôø?

Title: My computer has stopped recognizing apostraphes
Post by: landbeforetimelover on February 27, 2010, 11:09:29 PM

Definitely a character encoding issue.  Does it happen in Notepad and other applications too, or just online?

Title: My computer has stopped recognizing apostraphes
Post by: aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) on February 28, 2010, 01:24:55 AM

Just online. and then only in text that was pasted into a web browser from a word processing document.

Title: My computer has stopped recognizing apostraphes
Post by: Serris on February 28, 2010, 01:28:06 AM

See if you can change the encoding in your browser.

I use ISO-8859-1 (Western) in Firefox.

Title: My computer has stopped recognizing apostraphes
Post by: Mumbling on February 28, 2010, 03:44:39 AM

For me it shows up as a quotation mark, no idea what to do about it though.

Title: My computer has stopped recognizing apostraphes
Post by: raga on March 02, 2010, 02:57:16 AM

Turns up fine for me, have you recently changed any settings?