Question: How do you keep quotation marks from showing up as question marks?

[Larry Eckart]

Guys,
I usually write my posts in Word and then copy them into our editor. Quotation marks always show us as question marks. How do I get around that?

Larry

 

[OliverNJ]

sounds like a character encoding error. sometimes I will paste stuff into notepad then re-copy it to get just the text, without all the Word formatting you get when copying directly from Word.

 

[benp]

It shows up as question marks on my iPhone in other people's posts whereas post I make show correctly what I type.

? Question mark
"" quotation mark
& and sign
$ dollar sign

Does mine show up correctly to others?

 

[Ken Deal]

you have a virus. I had the same thing on an Apple and had to get it scrubbed.

 

[OliverNJ]

Ben,

your post looks fine to me using Chrome, IE, Firefox, and Edge on my computer, and Safari on my phone.

 

[benp]

If it were a virus wouldn't it affect every aspect of the phone then? It's only this site that I have others posts show question marks for quotation marks.

 

[OliverNJ]

Maybe the ?smart quotes? in word are the issue. See it turning off that feature fixes your problem

https://support.office.com/...3d-b2cc-71dedaf2f343

the above was typed in word then pasted here with smart quotes on, anybody see question marks?

Edit to add: im seeing question marks on my iphone and computer using chrome, i think the smart quotes are the issue.

 

[george w]

Larry, perhaps it is a digital error?[w00t] Think about it!!!!

 

[Larry Eckart]

I just went back in and edited the unintentional question marks out of my post. All good now.
Larry

 

[Carl]

When I post from my iPhone, I get the same sorta stuff.
Punctuation doesn't display right, if I remember correctly is mostly with apostrophe's.
Its some sorta of coding/auto-correct error, frustrating but no big deal.