This is an unusual problem, I guess. I’ve got this weblog entry that seems to be all right. I got the text from someone else, pasted it in and formatted it. On the preview page, everything looks fine. But the rendered text has these weird entities.
I created a test page and entry, to test quotes. Normal quotes seem fine, but the pasted ones are crap still. http://lawbb.net/index.php/home/test2
I can, I suppose, fix the offending quotes by tediously trying to track down them and retyping them. But why are they showing up quite nicely in the entry preview? I’ve turned off xhtml, the auto br thing, and even on none—no change. So why is a curly quote—I think they are the ones—so offending? And why do they show up in my preview but not on the actual site? Same browser, etc.
Here’s some of the offending paragraph—just copied and pasted from the weblog entry page:
Jeffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales were written about individuals in the 14th century British community, such as the knight, the miller, the reeve, the cook, the pardoner, and the merchant. “Though lightly peopled, the world of Chaucer was mobile,” says F.R.H. Du Boulay. “War, diplomacy, trade, administration, and the impulses of religion shifted men and women of even humble station about the country and far beyond its shores.” Boulay also explained that many of the characters in Chaucer’s stories, despite their frequent travels, knew each other. Political and economic changes that impact the marketability of certain professions experienced by professionals today is nothing new; and just as in times past, networking and the display of one’s education, experience, and other qualifications are sure ways to turn a new leaf.
Am I missing something? That text shows up fine in preview (and here on the forums), but all the quote marks are destroyed on the live site. Regular quotes work just fine, though.