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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 02:10 AM | Comments (95) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

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 »

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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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