Title: html editor adding formats & characters?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# html editor adding formats & characters?

 *  Resolved [snarkattack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snarkattack/)
 * (@snarkattack)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-adding-formats-038-characters/)
 * I’m not sure why, but whenever I try to post a comment, or a link and I want 
   to use the apostrophe (‘), it gets surrounded by slashes:
 * e.g. my ‘name’
 * would appear like so
 * my /’name’/
 * Even when I’ve switched off the html editor, why does this still happen? I thought
   I’d only need to use html codes for characters when using visual rich text editor.
   For instance, when I try to input the code for “û” it didn’t show. But when I
   pasted it in, it appeared fine.
 * For posts, I have also had trouble with the html editor adding `<strong></strong
   >` tags everywhere, again I don’t know why. When I try to edit the html source,
   and delete them, resave them, they appear again.
 * Someone helped me out with the `<strong></strong>` tag thing by editing the entire
   page via GoLive but I’m not comfortable just yet with doing that.
 * I’m using WP 2.0
    (I won’t leave links because I don’t know if that’s cool)
 * Any help would be appreciated, and my apologies in advance – I’m really trying
   to understand this stuff so please don’t be mad if I’m a bit clueless.
 * Thanks!

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 *  [yosemite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yosemite/)
 * (@yosemite)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-adding-formats-038-characters/#post-441481)
 * _/’name’/_
    Fixed in 2.0.4, although you may need to edit out any `\` already
   in comments…
 *  Thread Starter [snarkattack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snarkattack/)
 * (@snarkattack)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-adding-formats-038-characters/#post-441738)
 * oh, okay thanks very much for letting me know! I’ll upgrade asap.

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 * Last reply from: [snarkattack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snarkattack/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-editor-adding-formats-038-characters/#post-441738)
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