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[TractorGuy]

Did you folks know if you preview your posts you can fix these I知 things before you hit the submit button? Just saying!

Some posts have so many of them you can't read the intended messages.

 

[jcummins]

Are you writing the post in word or something like that then cut/paste here? I've see when punctuation controls in those corrupt the posting.

 

[TractorGuy]

Are you writing the post in word or something like that then cut/paste here? I've see when punctuation controls in those corrupt the posting.

I don't experience the problem. Just letting folks know that do if they preview their posts they can find and fix it before they submit. I think it happens a lot to people using ipads and iphones. I know it also happens if a post is copied and pasted from word.

 

[Motorboatin]

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Posting this from my iPad and your preview trick didnt work. When I post from a PC there are no problems

 

[John_Mc]

The problem shows up for me when I post from my iPhone, but not from my computer (which is a Mac). When typing in the post on my phone, it looks fine, but when I go back and read it later, the junk is there. Editing from the iPhone does not good: any time I type a contraction on the iPhone ("I'm" instead of "I am", "don't" instead of "do not", etc.) I get the junk. If I go back and edit it from my computer, it will clear it up.

The only way I've found to stop this behavior is to not use contractions... but that gets rather cumbersome after a while.

 

[John_Mc]

Just found the solution to this problem (at least when it is caused by typing from an iPhone):

Go into your iPhone Settings>General>Keyboard and turn "Smart Punctuation" OFF. Smart punctuation substitutes alternate characters for some of the standard set - including apostrophes, and quotation marks (for example, substituting a curly apostrophe or curly quotes for a straight ones). Many web sites don't understand these alternate characters, or may not have them in their chosen default font.

Typed on my iPhone with Smart Punctuation ON:

I don稚 like 鉄mart Punctuation? It痴 always messing things up.

Typed with Smart Punctuation OFF:

I don't like "Smart Punctuation". It's always messing things up.

If you look closely when typing from an iPhone, you'll notice that when Smart Punctuation is on, apostrophes and quotation marks appear curly when you post them. When Smart Punctuation is off, they are just little marks that go straight up and down. (You'll only see the curly quotes - and they will appear normal - as you are typing, once you hit post, it goes to the TBN site, which can't handle those characters, so it appears messed up upon later viewing.)

If you copy and paste from a program that also uses these characters, you'll also have the problem. If that application has the ability to turn off "Smart Quotes" or "Smart Punctuation", doing so will make your cut & pastes come out clean on this site.