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WEIRD SYMBOLS

James Joyner
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Lately, I’ve noticed an inordinate amount of weird symbols showing up in my blog posts, almost always in the block quotes. Apparently, a lot more bloggers and news sites are composing their entries in word processing programs and then posting them. For whatever reason, whether it’s a function of Movable Type or the Verdana font I use, a lot of these don’t translate properly when I cut and paste them into my editor and publish them to OTB. I usually catch these quickly, but not always.

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2 responses to “WEIRD SYMBOLS”

  1. Matthew Avatar
    Matthew

    It’s not an MT error, I don’t think. Blogger sometimes suffers from the same problem. It’s that special characters — curved quote marks, emdash characters, etc. — don’t work well in forms. If somebody wants to use them, they should change the character to the relevant ampersand code or just not use them at all.

  2. Steven Avatar
    Steven

    I have the same problem. In fact, if I write something in Word, I often have to fix quotation marks, dashes and other symbols when I cut and paste into MT.

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