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General discussionWhy do some reviews replace slashes and quotemarks with weirdness?(9 posts)solved(9 posts)solved
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Posted February 10, 2016
I see a lot of reviews with things like ’ and ø where the actual symbols belong. Is it just me or is there something wrong with something something I don't know I'm tired and I'm confused please help thanks.
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Posted February 10, 2016
Could you give at least one example? I'm not going to trawl through every game card on the site, looking for reviews that look odd.
Posted February 10, 2016
Because the original post uses "smart quotes" instead of the ASCII quote character, and your browser happens to interpret the character set differently than the browser used to upload the review.
Posted February 10, 2016
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dtgreene: Because the original post uses "smart quotes" instead of the ASCII quote character, and your browser happens to interpret the character set differently than the browser used to upload the review.
Ah, that usually means that the text was copy-pasted from MS Word or a similar program.
Posted February 10, 2016
Might be text from another language that doesn't translate over well.
Posted February 20, 2016
From a review of Rollercoaster Tycoon 3:

lso, it's easy to tell what's what and who's who when visually panning over any given park, so the graphics are certainly doing their job (just try turning on Majesty 2 and comparing its 3D & l d q u o ; upgrade & r d q u o ;

I put spaces between the characters because I realize that it works on the forum. It isn't horrible or anything, just off-putting.
Posted February 20, 2016
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dtgreene: Because the original post uses "smart quotes" instead of the ASCII quote character, and your browser happens to interpret the character set differently than the browser used to upload the review.
I guess that's a part of the answer - there are smart quotes there, but we are not without fault here.
We made a change that rises your security (prevent users to inject scripts that would run in other users browsers) in few places, but we have to deal with some encoded characters now. It's not super-top priority compared to users security, but still it's not your browsers fault. :)
Posted February 20, 2016
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dtgreene: Because the original post uses "smart quotes" instead of the ASCII quote character
I HATE smart quotes. They do nothing for you and just make things more complicated. Although from what i can tell it's often MS office and other higher end text editors that shove smart quotes on you. I personally have a scripting program that forces normal quotes whenever possible to keep things simpler.
Posted February 20, 2016
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dtgreene: Because the original post uses "smart quotes" instead of the ASCII quote character, and your browser happens to interpret the character set differently than the browser used to upload the review.
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Johny.: I guess that's a part of the answer - there are smart quotes there, but we are not without fault here.
We made a change that rises your security (prevent users to inject scripts that would run in other users browsers) in few places, but we have to deal with some encoded characters now. It's not super-top priority compared to users security, but still it's not your browsers fault. :)
Well that's good to know. I thought I was going crazy.
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