dirtrider Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 When I made a new post with quote yesterday these strange A's appeared in both the quote & my posting. The red underline was added by me in this picture to highlight the problem. I want back in & edited my post to remove the A's (they showed up by themselves a couple hours AFTER my reply was posted). Link to comment
chrisolson Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Well, that's a good one .... particularly since they showed up after . Don't have a handy answer but I'll see if I can find anything. If it happens again, post here before you edit it. Link to comment
dirtrider Posted February 10, 2019 Author Share Posted February 10, 2019 6 minutes ago, chrisolson said: Well, that's a good one .... particularly since they showed up after . Don't have a handy answer but I'll see if I can find anything. If it happens again, post here before you edit it. The post is still there with the quoted part unedited. Link to comment
chrisolson Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Ahh Ok, I misunderstood. Try highlighting all the text in the quote and then click the Tx symbol on the edit menu (4th from last) . That should clear any extraneous formatting. Doesn't explain why its there Link to comment
dirtrider Posted February 10, 2019 Author Share Posted February 10, 2019 19 minutes ago, chrisolson said: Ahh Ok, I misunderstood. Try highlighting all the text in the quote and then click the Tx symbol on the edit menu (4th from last) . That should clear any extraneous formatting. Doesn't explain why its there OK, tried that & no change. Orig posting Link to comment
chrisolson Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 It was worth a try ... but as its apparently part of the actual text (rather than a formatting issue) that was ineffective. Manually editing them out would be the only option. Still, how they got there is a mystery. Their placement is also inconsistent. Nothing so far other than a vague possibility its a character encoding issue and although that sorta makes sense, hard to explain the "after post effect" . So for now, unresolved. Link to comment
dirtrider Posted February 10, 2019 Author Share Posted February 10, 2019 5 minutes ago, chrisolson said: It was worth a try ... but as its apparently part of the actual text (rather than a formatting issue) that was ineffective. Manually editing them out would be the only option. Still, how they got there is a mystery. Their placement is also inconsistent. Nothing so far other than a vague possibility its a character encoding issue and although that sorta makes sense, hard to explain the "after post effect" . So for now, unresolved. I should probably qualify the "after post effect". It wasn't there 'right' after posting but was there when I rechecked the posting a couple of hours later. It's not a big deal to me, I just wanted to bring it to your attention. Link to comment
Lowndes Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Dirt Rider, That "strange A" looks a lot like a formatting mark. Several years ago similar marks started showing up everywhere after a very young grandson took a turn at my keyboard. It drove me nuts until I googled it and got it restored. But I'm still nuts. And: Might be worth a try. Link to comment
TestPilot Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Sorry if this is a bit over most people's heads. It's not a formatting mark. It has to do with how the text was encoded and later decoded. The quoted text was apparently originally encoded using the Unicode standard (UTF-8), and the character in question is a non-breaking space. If the text is later decoded using the ISO 8859-1 standard, it decodes as Â. I can't say exactly where and how the encoding and decoding took place. Link to comment
chrisolson Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 1 hour ago, TestPilot said: Sorry if this is a bit over most people's heads. It's not a formatting mark. It has to do with how the text was encoded and later decoded. Makes perfect sense ... and the non-breaking space explains why I originally though the anomaly was not consistent. It appeared to be leading each sentence except one. But in the original text, the one that it didn't appear only had 1 space after the preceding sentence period while all others had 2. But yes, its still a bit of a puzzle how it happened. Link to comment
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