Help with � U+FFFD "REPLACEMENT CHARACTER"

[woolly bugger]

Apostrophes  are showing up as � U+FFFD "REPLACEMENT CHARACTER"  after upgrading 2.0.15 --> 2.1


how do I fix this...

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thanks..

[Arantor]

Were the posts where this happening copied from Microsoft Word or similar into the editor?

[woolly bugger]

that may have been the case... I just saw several of them popping up on the board....

finally went in to edit them and discovered that they were caused be a double closed quote ...

[Arantor]

Word's "smart quotes" don't behave nicely for many reasons, but were these posts from before or after the upgrade?

[woolly bugger]

both... new and old post, never noticed the problem before... just came to my attention when a new post showed the "?"

various characters are causing the issue such as the è derri�re

[Arantor]

Interestingly this was supposed to be permanently fixed in 2.1

[woolly bugger]

Interestingly a user who's log on name was in part "cūlus" could no longer log on, User Name not found error!

I had to change his name to gain access....

[woolly bugger]

it also appears that some of the post with the � U+FFFD "REPLACEMENT CHARACTER" were made via the TapaTalk interface...

[woolly bugger]

Ok, I found another one of the problem post that appeared correctly prior to 2.1

The post appears blank, I go into modify and there you see the (?)

I edit they to an ' and then hit save!

I get the duplicate message error and go BACK and then save again any only then does to post appear as it did prior to 2.1