I'm running Firefox 103.0.2 (64-bit) under Windows 10 21H2.
On some web pages Firefox displays quotation marks as \u201c and \u201d
Is there a way to correct this?
\u201c & \u201d appear instead of quotation marks
- Clueless in Seattle
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\u201c & \u201d appear instead of quotation marks
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Will in Seattle
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- dickvl
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Re: \u201c & \u201d appear instead of quotation marks
Can you post a link to a publicly accessible page (no authentication required)?
It is possible that the page content was copied from another (eight bit) encoding that didn't support Unicode.
It is possible that the page content was copied from another (eight bit) encoding that didn't support Unicode.
- Clueless in Seattle
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Re: \u201c & \u201d appear instead of quotation marks
I'm afraid I can't recall which web page it turned up on this morning, so I'll have to wait until it happens again and then post a link.
Okay, Here's a page with lots of quoted text on it that shows multiple instances of the substitutions of \u201c & \u201d:
https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/trump- ... ign=11046
Okay, Here's a page with lots of quoted text on it that shows multiple instances of the substitutions of \u201c & \u201d:
https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/trump- ... ign=11046
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Will in Seattle
a.k.a. "Clueless"
Will in Seattle
a.k.a. "Clueless"
- dickvl
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Re: \u201c & \u201d appear instead of quotation marks
I remember having seen this reported before with embedded tweets and this is a possible JavaScript bookmarklet to fix this.
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javascript:/*twitter:\uxxxx,\n*/void(document.querySelectorAll('blockquote.twitter-custom-tweet').forEach(e=>e.innerHTML=e.innerHTML.replace(/\\u([0-9a-f]{4})/g,r=>unescape(r.replace(/\\u([0-9a-f]{4})/,'%u$1'))).replace(/\\n/g,'\n')))
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Re: \u201c & \u201d appear instead of quotation marks
Looks to me it is simply the manner in which the quoted parts were posted & how they are handled, displayed by the website.
The page source shows \u201c & \u201d.
Notice how the '&' is properly "encoded" (as '&' & then "rendered" as '&') .
The page source shows \u201c & \u201d.
Notice how the '&' is properly "encoded" (as '&' & then "rendered" as '&') .
Fire 750, bring back 250.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
- Clueless in Seattle
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Re: \u201c & \u201d appear instead of quotation marks
Thanks for the replies, folks! But I have to confess that they are Greek to me.
Last edited by Clueless in Seattle on August 19th, 2022, 9:18 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Will in Seattle
a.k.a. "Clueless"
Will in Seattle
a.k.a. "Clueless"
- dickvl
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Re: \u201c & \u201d appear instead of quotation marks
Does using the bookmarklet work for you?
Note that some pages may load extra content if you scroll down and in such a case you need to invoke the bookmarklet more than once to process new content.
Note that some pages may load extra content if you scroll down and in such a case you need to invoke the bookmarklet more than once to process new content.