October 10, 2006

Attack of the Squigglies

We had some sort of code-page glitch while transferring the blog database across, and people who use Word or similar fancy-pants editors to create posts got bit.

I can fix it, but what would help is a list of what used to be, and what now is.

So for example, apostrophes got replaced by ’ and ó got replaced by ó.

Post your examples in the comments and I'll write a program to hunt them down and kill fix them all. :)

Posted by Pixy Misa at October 10, 2006 02:10 AM | TrackBack
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#1

“ is a fancy open quotes; ” is close quotes.

Posted by Pixy Misa at October 10, 2006 02:12 AM
#2

On my blog the problems are the brackets around the category under the post title... for example:

At the top of a post we see the title and then the extra characters on the category directly under it.

Bloggy Stuff...
« Web/Tech »

This also happens on my comment drop down and if I use the extended entry - the "click here" link to show the rest. For example:

More The Man Who Would Be Governor »

Show Comments »

As far as I can tell, these are my only issues. I don't use Word to compose my posts so I didn't end up with weird stuff within posts.

Posted by Teresa at October 10, 2006 03:06 AM
#3

I finally took the time to look through my template and was able to delete all of the characters without causing issues. It rather scared me because I figured I'd blow it - but all seems to be well so far.

Posted by Teresa at October 10, 2006 04:06 AM
#4

my problem appears to be confined to apostrophes and quote marks as described above.

Posted by caltechgirl at October 10, 2006 04:47 AM
#5

It’s crap. It's crap.

pensioner’s pensioner's

– a one-time " a one-time

don’t don't

Incidentally, I create all of my posts in MT and this weirdness is only showing up on my latest post, so far.

Posted by Gir at October 10, 2006 04:53 AM
#6

My problem too seems to be confined to those above.

Posted by oddybobo at October 10, 2006 01:59 PM
#7

Can't we fix this by setting the character encoding to unicode? Isn't there a way to do this at the HTTP level?

Posted by David Boxenhorn at October 10, 2006 05:14 PM
#8

Just tried changing the encoding to unicode in the browser - it works. Can't we just tell the browser to do the right thing?

Anyway:

Café is Caf

Posted by David Boxenhorn at October 10, 2006 05:21 PM
#9

Thanks David. Yes, we can probably do that.

I'll take a look.

Posted by Pixy Misa at October 10, 2006 07:42 PM
#10

My squiggly disease is contained to what the above bloggers posted. I will say I'm still pre writing in Word (an old habit from my blogspot days) and I am not getting the squigglies in my new posts. They're still in my old posts.

I will also say... I'm pretty laid back. If this is a big deal to fix... don't do it on my account. I never go back and read the old stuff anyway. Half the time I can't believe I posted half the stuff I did.

Posted by Bou at October 11, 2006 01:54 AM
#11

Did this ever get fixed, I'm still having problems with this on my blog and in my archives for posts prior to October 10th, 2006.

Posted by Contagion at December 28, 2006 05:08 PM
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