Pasting apostrophes and quotation marks results in weird symbols and characters.

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After the format change to the IMDB message boards all apostrophes and quotes are now not recognized and translated as a string of odd characters, and as a question mark in a diamond during editing mode, if pasted there instead of directly typed. They then have to all be manually redone directly inside the editing window. It's getting very annoying and time consuming to fix.
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Devin S. Kelley

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Posted 7 years ago

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Dan Dassow, Champion

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This is a known, yet very annoying, problem.

Please see:
Using quotation marks/punctuation - Recent glitches on message boards
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topi...
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DrakeStraw

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I had the problem with dumb single quotes today, replying to a post made before the current board SNAFU. The corruption of previous smartquotes persisted until I removed all the spaces around them. We were promised in the "Improved [sic] Message Board" thread that these problems would be cleared up by Monday. So far I can't see any evidence that they have even worked on the problem.

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