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Tasmanian Devil

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1. I don't know, but ...

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2026, 11:16 PM

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‘Peace president’ has unicode open/close quotes around the Peace President text. They display as single characters but are encoded as 3 bytes (each). It displays fine in my browser (Safari). Idk why it would not display correctly for you.

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Why are apostrophes -- or is it hyphens -- in some posts suddenly showing up as a scrambled mess ?? [View all] eppur_se_muova Tuesday OP

I don't know, but ... Tasmanian Devil Tuesday #1

It's nothing nefarious EarlG Tuesday #2

Thanks ! It started rather suddenly, so that provoked my suspicions. I guess repeated copy/paste just ... eppur_se_muova Yesterday #3

I've seen this too. mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday #4

I noticed this in one of my posts dweller Yesterday #5

For example , see this post dweller Yesterday #6

Also here question everything Yesterday #7

Did the cut and paste function of some browser or operating system change? hunter Yesterday #8

If you edit your post dweller 21 hrs ago #9