What is wrong with apostrophes on the site?

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I was looking at my post today and the apostrophes turned into a wierd string. Then I saw Yooper had the same issue in his post- they turn into ****8217;

NOTE....... ""moderated added quotation marks (apostrophes) ...... see coachgeo/moderator response below for understanding""
 
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I have seen this often, also.
 

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I was looking at my post today and the apostrophes turned into a wierd string. Then I saw Yooper had the same issue in his post- they turn into ****8217;

NOTE....... ""moderated added quotation marks (apostrophes) ...... see coachgeo/moderator response below"" for understanding
just brought this up to Mr. K (our Admin) before seeing this thread. He's probably not seen it yet. these are codes for left and right quotation marks

I've only noticed the codes popping up inside a quoted post as shown above. They seem normal in original post such as the OP's orginal post I edited.

If there are post where the code shows within something that is NOT inside a quote.. please send me a "post link" (the little number in orange bar at top right of a post that is underlined, is a link)

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UPDATE... ok weird..... didn't happen when I masterfully set out to replicate this problem :eek: ...... hmmm :cool: :p.. maybe he did see the PM I sent him already?

orrrrrrrr..... THE PLOT THICKENS.....see following post
 
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ok......... well the codes that are showing are for LEFT and Right apostrophe which is NOT something I have on my keyboard..... and maybe why my attempt to replicate the error above did not cause the phenomenon I was expecting.

Might be on other keyboards", tablets" or an APP? or iphones? that is causing this issue???? thus it might only happening in post created thru such???

example

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http://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/showpost.php?p=264999&postcount=6 NOTE the iPhone / tapatalk use to make that post

then someone quoted him (grey box) and codes appeared instead of apostrophe

http://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/showpost.php?p=265022&postcount=11


PS... if it is Tapatalk am beginning to hate it. Find that users who post into forums with that app end up causing other issues. Such as on some forums when folk use it to put pics in post.... the pics end up being hosted by tapatalk... which means they will eventually disappear like what happened with users of Photobucket. Turned millions good informative post into a useless archived dribble.. unless of course the posters pay the ransom err I mean "fee" they surprised them all with after years..... as the only way to allow their pics to be viewed outside of Photobucket was now to pay a fee. No one paid.... post became useless... huge amount of forum archives on bulletin boards across the globe became junk overnight.
 
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I am posting from an iPad as well. Maybe the latest iOS? Let’s see.
 

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Coach he used the apostrophe in the post above it, "let's".

So we'll see what it does with mine, android tablet. I only have one kind of quote, no left and right.
 

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And the same thing from an iPhone:

Let***8217;s

***8220;Let***8217;s ***8220;
hmmmm..... .... intawesting. That is without using tapatalk right..... just Iphone?
 
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Yes new iPhone 7, up to date operating system. Used safari to log in. But it looks normal to me in original post, but your requote in the grey background has it in code. ???
 

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Yes new iPhone 7, up to date operating system. Used safari to log in. But it looks normal to me in original post, but your requote in the grey background has it in code. ???
There might be a setting in the VBulletin software that allows for Unicode inside post quotes that will need to be changed. Tis my suggestion to Admin/Mr. K to look into.

It is not just here. Seeing it on other boards.
 

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hmmmm..... .... intawesting. That is without using tapatalk right..... just Iphone?
Coach - I see that with my iPhone 6S iOS 11.2 posts, but I do use Tapatalk with that.

Gotten so I avoid using apostrophe, or fix them after on laptop. Again, sounds like it could be a Tapatalk issue.
 

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If I write something up in Word, this text, then chuck it in a post, I need to go and change all the apostrophes once it***8217;s posted.