amalthia: (Firefly Inara)
Amalthia ([personal profile] amalthia) wrote in [community profile] getting_started2009-05-29 02:32 pm
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?format=light question

When I save entries in ?format=light and actually ?style=mine I get these weird characters in the body of the text. here's an example

can’t
“You’re
doesn’t

I'm not sure why this is happening. I'm saving the files as plain html.

EDIT: I'm realizing based on some of the responses that I didn't explain fully enough. In web browsers the text looks fine. It's only when I open the file in Word or Wordpad (to look at the code) that the weird characters show up. Normally, Microsoft Word is rather good about opening HTML files.
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[personal profile] zellieh 2009-05-29 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not an expert, but it may be something to do with character encoding; I usually see this on some webpages, and if I go to Firefox's View - Character Encoding, I get a list of commonly-used encoding, and switching between those options often makes the apostrophes and speechmarks show up normally again. So maybe it could be worth checking your browser settings?