Strange Characters in my posts

I had this problem too. It’s some weird character encoding thing. If you delete and re-type the offending characters and then publish, it should be fixed.

It’s the difference between a ‘ that you wrote and the ‘ that the program wrote.
The only solution is to open your blog in one winow, the edit post in another, and replace the ‘ with the ‘ where the error occurs.
I did it recently for someone .. took a while .. but now they don’t use Word (?) to write their posts.

so this is a problem which originates in word?
is there no way to make WP recognize these characters? The person who is using this to post always does word drafts before posting.

Yes. Word will do that, and this will also cause validation errors. I suggest using Notepad, and then cut and paste. Works every time.

I think I see why you’re doing this: for spell check? I do the same thing. You can write your whole post in Word, cut and paste into Notepad, and again cut and paste into WP blog. This removes those proprietary quotes that Word seems to make.

It is not just word – I have this problem when I cut and paste from any source of formatted text.
I am trying to figure out why the text shows correctly in preview, but not in the productive post…any ideas?

I don’t know if my problem is related, but when I paste in a post it adds line breaks where there should not be any. The command-line editor I use wraps lines at 80 characters, and when they get pasted into a WordPress post they stay that way. The problem is that WordPress is autoformatting my post for HTML, and I don’t want it to. Unfortunately I can’t find a way to disable this; I think it’s the only feature MT had that WP lacks (at least the only one that I’ve missed).
Does anyone know of a plugin or hack that will disable the autoformatting?

I have something that may help a bit.

I downloaded the free text editor called Note Tab Light and installed it. Then I just paste in any text I want to reformat into that.

Then I select all text (Ctrl+A) then choose Modify > Lines> split, then Modify> Lines> Join.

This restructures the whole document perfectly every time. Then I just cut and paste the whole thing back into WP and it looks and works perfectly.

This allows me to reformat text to be around 60 characters wide without doing it all by hand, line-by-line.

Regards,
Dave

I have something that may help a bit.

I downloaded the free text editor called Note Tab Light and installed it. Then I just paste in any text I want to reformat into that.

Then I select all text (Ctrl+A) then choose Modify > Lines> split, then Modify> Lines> Join.

This restructures the whole document perfectly every time. Then I just cut and paste the whole thing back into WP and it looks and works perfectly.

This allows me to reformat text to be around 60 characters wide without doing it all by hand, line-by-line.

Regards,
Dave

Search for the CurlyEnc plugin, that fixes this problem

What’s happening is that there is a difference between the ‘ character, and the ’ character. Word uses one character encoding, while the web assumes you’re using another (UTF-8). In UTF-8, ’ translates to those funny characters you were seeing.