Apostrophe appearing as superscript "9" in tinymce editor

  • I’m baffled. Tried searching through Google and the WP forum, but can’t seem to find an answer.

    I type my posts in Google Doc, and copy & paste them into WP. But apostrophe isn’t showing up correctly. It shows up as a superscript “9”, like this:
    https://imgur.com/hErjYvY

    I pasted the post as “Past as Text” in the Visual editor. Didn’t work.

    Tried pasting into the Text editor (which appears correctly as ‘). But visual editor still showed up as the superscript 9. Funny thing is the apostrophe shows up correctly on my website when published.

    Now when I copied the text from the visual editor back into Google Doc, it appeared correctly as an apostrophe… Does anyone know what is going on?

    If it helps, I did modify the editor-style.css so that TinyMCE will display the font I used on my website. Perhaps I accidentally deleted something there?

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  • This might be an issue with your font. If there is the wrong glyph on the position for the apostrophe, you get the wrong character. What font is that?

    Thread Starter kevdesdev

    (@kevdesdev)

    Ubuntu, got it from Google Fonts.

    I thought it might the font problem too, but I don’t know where to begin…

    Now when I do things like “hello”, the beginning quote appears as 8 while the ending quote appears as 9.

    So I thought it was Google Doc issue, I tried pasting something from TextEdit and it still showed up funky. I suspect it must be what I did in editor-style.css… prior to changing it, the quotes showed up fine.

    Looks like a common problem. Use another font with correct apostrophes instead.

    If anyone comes across this issue in the future using the unicode character works fine (e.g. &#39 for an apostrophe). I was using Advanced Custom Fields and had this this exact problem with the Ubuntu font. It doesn’t like hyphens either.

    Having the same issue. Well, I hope they will fix the font…

    trwhite – How do I use the unicode character instead? My entire logo and website is built around this font and I’m super stressed out. It doesn’t seem to show up oddly on other people’s computers and devices but I can’t even create promotional materials in Word or Apple Pages without the same issue. Help!

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