Well, it converts emdashes to just dashes but that’s better than the alternative - hosing the RSS feeds, I suppose.
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."
Aw, hell. I thought I'd edited all of the funny characters in the blog editor. Sorry to be such a pain, Becks.
n-1:
Yorgle - borgle - hebetudinous
—sa—muelg—o—mpers—
My emdashes are getting through, but my ens aren't.
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!
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?
No, it was "oy" as in "sheesh! Share the story."
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.
What were we talking about, now?
Tectonic plates, if I'm not mistaken.
Yes! So, hott tectonic plate shifting action!
'scuse me—hott "tectonic plate" shifting 'action'!
Okay, I didn't see anything kewl happening with the punctuation. Am I clue-free here?
Pressing “combinations” of key’s should get you “smart” quotes of various... sorts if you’re willing to “punctuate” like “Kaye”... Grogan.
Specifically, option + [ or ] with maybe a shift.
Yeah, I'm doing my best Kaye Grogan and getting bupkis. Is this browser-dependent?
“Ah-ha!” they said. “This is awesome. But we can’t possibly type this way!”
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.)
an unrealistic goal for this site.
My, aren't we feeling a little tart. Crisp. Something like that.
Obviously, baked goods are much on my mind.
“Sassy”, AFAIK, is entirely free of culinary association.
I'll take it.
the Bronx, and Staten Island too; we'll cross fifth avenue!
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.
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.
Can't reproduce your error, Apo. Let me know if you see it again.
“Sassy”, AFAIK, is entirely free of culinary association.
I think this was implicit in 25, but.