Hello,

When I highlight text on a webpage in Safari that contains quotes (") and then click on my Quickpost link to include the text in the Quickpost body, the quotes in the highlighted text in the browser are turned into %u201C once the text is included in the body of the Quickpost in the pop up window.

If I manually input the quotes directly into the body of the Quickpost window, the quotes do not turn into %u201C, it is only when I highlight text in a browser with quotes and then click on the Quickpost link do the quotes turn into %u201C.

Does anyone know how I prevent highlighted text with quotes from a browser from turning quotes into %u201C when using Quickpost?

I would appreciate any help or advice.

Thanks.

Are these actually regular ASCII-type quotes, or "smart quotes"? Can you point to an example of a page where you're copying the text from?

Hi Sarah,

These quotes are regular ASCII type quotes I believe.

Do these three steps to reproduce the error:

1. Go to this URL:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/travel/1...xprod=permalink

2. And then select the 2nd paragraph which starts with

It used to be that you would book through an online agency because of the savings,” which for one night “could...

3. Next, with that paragraph selected, click the QuickPost bookmark.

You should see the quotes turned into %u201c.

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Any tips for preventing this from happening is appreciated.

Thanks so much.

If you see the angled quotes in the text here:



These are not regular quotes, but rather "smart quotes". If you're seeing these displayed incorrectly in your weblog, it's likely that it is because these characters are not part of the charset used by your weblog. I'd suggest you manually change them to regular quotes, ie " " instead of “,” before saving the entry.

Is there a way to change the charset on the weblog so that I don't have to manually replace each smart quote every time I use the Quickpost option (this is a very tedious solution)?

If so, please let me know how I can change the charset on the weblog so that the smart quotes don't turn into %u201c when I highlight text and use Quickpost to post the text.

Thanks for your help!