Suggestion for the funky text characters in pasted quotes/text

/pine · Dec 22, 2013

Not sure what the issue is but I'm sure everyone has seen the funky (mis-parsed) characters when a member posts pasted text that contains certain characters...

It could possibly have something to do with the way 'regular expressions' are configured?

I am not familiar with whatever version of software (vBulletin)? etc. powering the forum...but is should not be difficult to add a 'preg_replace' string into the form action code...?

just a suggestion...

flyerdan · Dec 22, 2013

There is already a "remove format" button and "paste as plain text" button in the reply box, first two on the left.

/pine · Dec 22, 2013

flyerdan said:
There is already a "remove format" button and "paste as plain text" button in the reply box, first two on the left.

Thanks...I never looked at those icons (thought they were for text size/case/color)...after you pointing this out...there should be a "sticky" somewhere because I have never seen mention of the "remove format" and "paste as..." icon functions mentioned when said "funky characters" appear in pasted text...that does not mean I have not missed it...

Thanks again...:thumbsup:

aczlan · Dec 22, 2013

The "remove formatting" doesn't fix this issue (at least not in the enhanced editor, it may in the WSYSIG/Rich Text editor). This is caused by angled quotes (

). They are a problem because TBN uses ASCII and ASCII only has straight quotes while the angled quotes are Unicode

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark_glyphs said:
Code - Unicode name - HTML - Comments
U+2018 - left single quotation mark - ‘ - Single curved quote, left
U+2019 - right single quotation mark - ’ - Single curved quote, right
U+201C - left double quotation mark - “ - Double curved quote, or "curly quote", left
U+201D - right double quotation mark - ” - Double curved quote, right

Aaron Z