Title: XHTML Validation Problem: Quotation marks
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# XHTML Validation Problem: Quotation marks

 *  [idiotprogrammer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idiotprogrammer/)
 * (@idiotprogrammer)
 * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-quotation-marks/)
 * When I cut and pasted something from a slashdot using IE 6, I noticed that the
   quotation marks weren’t being processed correctly.
    Line 34, column 197: non 
   SGML character number 147 (explain…). …s plummeted, and many would say that “
   viral marketing” (through the sanctio ^ Line 34, column 213: non SGML character
   number 148 (explain…). … many would say that “viral marketing” (through the sanctioning
   of alternat ^ Line 36, column 37: non SGML character number 146 (explain…). Nobody
   ever put a gun to an artist’s head to sign an unfair contract with th Interestingly
   when I posted from cnn (with its share of quotation marks), I see no validation
   errors. Is this a problem with slashdot’s encoding, wordpress or something I 
   did in cutting and pasting it?

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 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-quotation-marks/#post-21887)
 * This shouldn’t have happened though coming from Slashdot’s page. See if you can
   recreate the problem. There was some code that checked for mad characters but
   it is currently being restructured as it was incredibly slow (it looped singly
   through every character of every post).
 *  [ripper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ripper/)
 * (@ripper)
 * [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-quotation-marks/#post-21897)
 * and they’re the other way around here for some reason.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [ripper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ripper/)
 * Last activity: [22 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtml-validation-problem-quotation-marks/#post-21897)
 * Status: not resolved

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