Title: Weird characters
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Weird characters

 *  [okephoto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/okephoto/)
 * (@okephoto)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-characters-1/)
 * A clients blog has been working fine but all of a sudden we are getting formatting
   characters in the text like: any ideas?
 * I’ve worked for a long time as a writer and editor for a wide range of corporate
   and government clients. Most of this work is made to order (“You want onions
   with that annual report?”; “That news release: over easy or scrambled?”).
   But as often as I can

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 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-characters-1/#post-663107)
 * Site look ok in IE7 and FF2 as far as I can tell. You do have validation errors
   which mean html mistakes which can cause problems. See [validator.w3.org.](http://validator.w3.org/)
 * How are you doing your ” and ‘? Using & and #8220;?
 *  Thread Starter [okephoto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/okephoto/)
 * (@okephoto)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-characters-1/#post-663108)
 * I should mention the site in question:
 * [http://www.georginamontgomery.com](http://www.georginamontgomery.com)
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-characters-1/#post-663127)
 * Well, the good news is that site has a lot less validation errors than your site:
   ^)
 * I have seen this with code or text being translated from Mac to Windows and back
   or about any other combination of back and forth. Use Unicode entity like `& 
   and #8220;` and `& and #8221;` for your quotes. Leave out the “and” – couldn’t
   get it to display the code.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-characters-1/#post-663127)
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