For Peter

Re: For Peter

You are not doing anything wrong. It's called the Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER used to replace an incoming character whose value is unknown or unrepresentable in Unicode. From your description, I suspect Word is embedding something that the forum editor is unable to translate and it is using the replacement character.

You might try pasting as plain text. There may be an option to do that when right-clicking to display the paste menu option, or use Ctrl+Shift+V instead of Ctrl+V.

If you used a password when posting, you can use that password to edit your post and attempt to remove them. We can also edit posts from the admin side to clean them up, which I sometimes do if I notice them.

I've tried writing code to search for and remove these these replacement codes but have not been able to make it work. Thanks for reminding me of this issue, as this has been an ongoing issue I want to fix.

Re: For Peter

Could it be that the symbols are replacing one of the double spaces some folks put between sentences?

Re: For Peter

>Could it be that the symbols are replacing one of the double spaces some folks put between sentences?

Possibly, but in this case I think it is Word (Mike says he is copying it from Word) is using a code for a paragraph break that the forum code isn't translating into the HTML code for a paragraph break. In this case, it is being translated into U+00C2 which is the Latin capital letter A with circumflex which the forum does not understand and replaces with a Unicode replacement character. 

Why are things so complicated? Arrrgh!

Re: For Peter

The following regex in the Perl scripts seems to fix this issue

s/\x{00C2}/<p>/g

but it renders the toolbar option to insert special characters unusable so I disabled it. How the above code would effect that dumbfounds me, but it somehow does.  Always sumthin'.