Why is " turning into †and ' turning into ’.
Hello, I spend a lot of time on GaiaOnline as well as using my email on firefox. Lately, any time I try to submit posts or send emails, firefox is changing all of my quotation marks, apostrophes, and misc. bbcode characters into other, random characters. For instance, quotation marks all become â€, and apostrophes all become ’. This is very frustrating and has made firefox impossible for me to use. I have really tested if I have the issue on other sites, and at the moment I'm stuck using Chrome since there is simply no work around for me to write normally. I thought the newest update would fix this, but no luck, and I've already completely refreshed firefox to defaults to try and fix this... I'm already really sad I had to do all of that and I just want to be able to use firefox again... I'm tired of Chrome or I wouldn't be writing...
All Replies (3)
If you see †instead of the Unicode character then this means that an 8-bit Western or Windows encoding is selected and not Unicode.
- View -> Text Encoding -> Unicode
cor-el said
If you see †instead of the Unicode character then this means that an 8-bit Western or Windows encoding is selected and not Unicode.
- View -> Text Encoding -> Unicode
Yea I had read this already, but the thing is, I'm already set to unicode... I've checked and double checked. If that WAS the issue, I don't know how it would have changed to begin with. Also, my friends who use firefox have been having this same issue. I had googled this issue and tried many suggested remedies with no luck... Which is why I am here now. Thank you for the quick reply though, I just wish the issue were so simple.
cor-el said
If you see †instead of the Unicode character then this means that an 8-bit Western or Windows encoding is selected and not Unicode.
- View -> Text Encoding -> Unicode
I've just double checked, and it seems like what is happening is, when I am using the site, it is in unicode, but the second I send a request to preview or post, or in the case of an email, submit it, it is changing at that moment to western, or processes it in western or something, and just messes everything up. I can then switch back to unicode and it will fix for the moment, but this never happened before. I still wish to correct it so that it is not flip flopping between the two for some reason. I've already cleared all of my plugins and everything, is there any idea what is causing this?