It also seems to fix the apostrophe problem: the first time I saw LB's most recent post in Firefox Sage there was some strange character where the apostrophe shouldhave been in "can't."
I think the word you're looking for, champ, is "oi". Which is what Cockney persons say when they want your attention. As opposed to what your and my persons say when their sciatica is acting up. There is a place in Marylebone Station called "Oi Bagel" which my father thought was hilarious, till he had it properly explained to him, at which point it became double-hilarious.
You shouldn't be getting anything, slol. If you weren't experiencing the problem, you should see no change. Some of us were seeing gibberish when a post or comment contained curly smart quotes or a curly apostrophe. (They sometimes get onto the site when people write their text in Word and then copy it into a post or comment.) Some people could see them fine. I put in a fix that should let everyone see the characters OK. (I was going to say "that should cut down on the gibberish" but that seems an unrealistic goal for this site.)
Can those of us without buttons on our keyboard marked "option" do something similar? My memory is that the "option" key is kind of like a glorified ALT key; but ALT-[ or ] or ALT-SH-[ or ] does not seem to do anything like what you're describing.
Strange behavior: see the end of the first paragraph of this comment. Two apostrophes within a sentence get transformed into single curly quotes. Not sure whether this happens consistently or not, but I have a special interest in apostrophes receiving proper representation.
33 - Huh. That's totally weird. The plugin won't change straight quotes to curly quotes. If someone used curly quotes in Microsoft Word encoding, it will change them to curly quotes in HTML encoding. So, I'm not sure why it would have done that.
Testing quote from comment: I'm sure it wasn't malicious.
34 used straight quotes. Now I’m going to try the same thing, copying it in from MS Word. Intentionally duplicating comment content:
That’s totally weird the plugin won’t change straight quotes to curly quotes. I’m not sure why it would have done that. Testing quote from comment: I’m sure it wasn’t malicious.
Well, it converts emdashes to just dashes but that’s better than the alternative - hosing the RSS feeds, I suppose.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 5:23 PM
It also seems to fix the apostrophe problem: the first time I saw LB's most recent post in Firefox Sage there was some strange character where the apostrophe shouldhave been in "can't."
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 5:44 PM
Aw, hell. I thought I'd edited all of the funny characters in the blog editor. Sorry to be such a pain, Becks.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 6:53 PM
n-1:
Yorgle - borgle - hebetudinous
—sa—muelg—o—mpers—
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 8:32 PM
Testing — no really
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 8:34 PM
My emdashes are getting through, but my ens aren't.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 8:35 PM
I have an item that demands sharing with the Unfoggetariat, but clearly it's impossible without the proper formatting. It wants sharing, I tell you!
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 9:02 PM
So share! Oy.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 9:07 PM
I think the word you're looking for, champ, is "oi". Which is what Cockney persons say when they want your attention. As opposed to what your and my persons say when their sciatica is acting up. There is a place in Marylebone Station called "Oi Bagel" which my father thought was hilarious, till he had it properly explained to him, at which point it became double-hilarious.
What were we talking about, now?
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 9:21 PM
No, it was "oy" as in "sheesh! Share the story."
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 9:23 PM
3 - No problem, LB. Funny characters were showing up in the comments, too. This will take care of both without me having to play the part of the nag.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 9:40 PM
What were we talking about, now?
Tectonic plates, if I'm not mistaken.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 9:53 PM
Yes! So, hott tectonic plate shifting action!
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 10:25 PM
'scuse me—hott "tectonic plate" shifting 'action'!
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 10:28 PM
Okay, I didn't see anything kewl happening with the punctuation. Am I clue-free here?
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 10:30 PM
Pressing “combinations” of key’s should get you “smart” quotes of various... sorts if you’re willing to “punctuate” like “Kaye”... Grogan.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 10:36 PM
Specifically, option + [ or ] with maybe a shift.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 10:38 PM
Yeah, I'm doing my best Kaye Grogan and getting bupkis. Is this browser-dependent?
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 10:40 PM
“Ah-ha!” they said. “This is awesome. But we can’t possibly type this way!”
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 10:42 PM
You shouldn't be getting anything, slol. If you weren't experiencing the problem, you should see no change. Some of us were seeing gibberish when a post or comment contained curly smart quotes or a curly apostrophe. (They sometimes get onto the site when people write their text in Word and then copy it into a post or comment.) Some people could see them fine. I put in a fix that should let everyone see the characters OK. (I was going to say "that should cut down on the gibberish" but that seems an unrealistic goal for this site.)
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 10:44 PM
an unrealistic goal for this site.
My, aren't we feeling a little tart. Crisp. Something like that.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 10:45 PM
Sassy.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 10:47 PM
Obviously, baked goods are much on my mind.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 10:48 PM
“Sassy”, AFAIK, is entirely free of culinary association.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 10:51 PM
Oh “really”?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 10:52 PM
Then I'm peachy.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 10:53 PM
I would say, “piquant”.
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 10:53 PM
27 - I'll take it.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 10:55 PM
I'll take it.
the Bronx, and Staten Island too; we'll cross fifth avenue!
Posted by slolernr | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 11:02 PM
gibbibibbibibibibiishe
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 11:12 PM
erish
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 04-21-06 11:13 PM
Specifically, option + [ or ] with maybe a shift.
Can those of us without buttons on our keyboard marked "option" do something similar? My memory is that the "option" key is kind of like a glorified ALT key; but ALT-[ or ] or ALT-SH-[ or ] does not seem to do anything like what you're describing.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 04-22-06 7:37 PM
Strange behavior: see the end of the first paragraph of this comment. Two apostrophes within a sentence get transformed into single curly quotes. Not sure whether this happens consistently or not, but I have a special interest in apostrophes receiving proper representation.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-23-06 10:06 AM
33 - Huh. That's totally weird. The plugin won't change straight quotes to curly quotes. If someone used curly quotes in Microsoft Word encoding, it will change them to curly quotes in HTML encoding. So, I'm not sure why it would have done that.
Testing quote from comment: I'm sure it wasn't malicious.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-23-06 11:11 AM
34 used straight quotes. Now I’m going to try the same thing, copying it in from MS Word. Intentionally duplicating comment content:
That’s totally weird the plugin won’t change straight quotes to curly quotes. I’m not sure why it would have done that. Testing quote from comment: I’m sure it wasn’t malicious.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-23-06 11:13 AM
Can't reproduce your error, Apo. Let me know if you see it again.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 04-23-06 11:14 AM
“Sassy”, AFAIK, is entirely free of culinary association.
I think this was implicit in 25, but.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 04-23-06 11:48 AM