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  1. #1
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    Default Magical Punctuation

    Why do my apostrophes turn into asterisks when I edit a post?

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    Default Re: Magical Punctuation

    Quote Originally Posted by flabbydan View Post
    Why do my apostrophes turn into asterisks when I edit a post?
    Because they are 'smartquotes' and not the ascii standard characters.

    Try this converter and see if it fixes them for you.

    https://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.php

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    Default Re: Magical Punctuation

    No. Because the forum is fucked up and it's not a priority to fix it.
    I called to check my ZIP CODE!....DY-NO-MITE!!!

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    Default Re: Magical Punctuation

    I can live with the asterisks

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    Default Re: Magical Punctuation

    Quote Originally Posted by t1066 View Post
    Because they are 'smartquotes' and not the ascii standard characters.

    Try this converter and see if it fixes them for you.

    https://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.php
    Thanks. I was really just curious why it was happening. I definitely have more important things to worry about.

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    Default Re: Magical Punctuation

    I thought it was to break search engines when trying to index pages. Also it really screws with search engines.

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