Current post content character formatting issue

[Atheling]

Yep, it seems to be quite a serious bug.

If anyone has any coding skillz, please contact the admin team would be my suggestion.

[Sakuragi Miniatures]

I write my posts in Word then copy/paste, so thought maybe it was that at first. It was like, I posted then the site went down and when it came back up the funny apostrophe replacements were there. Did I break the website?

I also tried copy/paste from notepad but that didn't make any difference.

[Digits]

This is weird?but reading back on my own posts ( and looking at replies on them) lots of my words have adjusted to show all manner of daft symbols?  Am I the only one to see this?

[HerbertTarkel]

This is weird?but reading back on my own posts ( and looking at replies on them) lots of my words have adjusted to show all manner of daft symbols?  Am I the only one to see this?

It?s on mine too. Question marks where contractions should be, weird stuff like that.

[Digits]

Yup?that sounds like it.

[Codsticker]

Yup, I see posts all the time with symbols and punctuation replaced with a ?.

[Cat]

My fondness for m-dashes is now questionable, eh?

[syrinx0]

It's everywhere. And annoying. 

[katie]

If i were to hazard a guess, it might be that an encoding setting has been changed somewhere in the stack and what were originally input as some unicode strings are being interpreted differently on the way out.

[fred]

If i were to hazard a guess, it might be that an encoding setting has been changed somewhere in the stack and what were originally input as some unicode strings are being interpreted differently on the way out.

Yep

Seems linked to a brief outage a week or so ago

[Tactalvanic]

longer

Other longer discussion here

https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=148594.0

[Digits]

Let?s hope the mods are on the case then.  It a little infuriating right now.

[nicknorthstar]

I've got the IT guys onto it. I'll check in see if they've fixed it.
Nick

[Dolmot]

It seems that the server is sending a UTF-8 encoded document, but the http header declares ISO-8859-1, which is usually interpreted and displayed as windows-1252 by browsers.

If the document has the "right single quotation mark" apostrophe (U+2019) as in "AKULA's" (which I won't try to actually enter properly now), it has bytes 0xE2 0x80 0x99. If the document was declared as UTF-8, you'd see the correct apostrophe. When it isn't, you get three one-byte windows-1252 characters which happen to be a-circumflex, euro and TM. (The latter two don't exist in ISO-8859-1 itself.)

I'm checking this on Firefox which has removed the option to change the display encoding manually. Nowadays it only has a "View -> Repair Text Encoding" option, which may detect the document as UTF-8 and switch the display encoding to that, if there are clearly invalid characters visible. The change should show in the "Tools -> Page Info", Text Encoding field. But if you force the encoding by other means, such as editing the header to UTF-8 or downloading the page and opening it in some editor which uses or allows UTF-8, the text looks fine.

Unfortunately, I don't know what happened and when and why, and what it would take to fix it. I'm not a web server or SMF admin enough.

(Posting this anyway despite the new message. I spent many minutes on this and even my coffee got cold. )

[nicknorthstar]

The IT chap says it's fixed. Is it?

It's not fixed it retrospectively.