Any Ideas Please.

[beau d.]

I have just purchased a new laptop which is a Windows 8 touchscreen, which has been fine until I posted on here. Any apostrophes, quote marks it replaces with #39 and all sorts. It removes my paragraphs also. I also experienced logging in problems when I returned to the forum. As No one else seems to be having problems it must be something with my settings, so like the title says any ideas please..........

 

[Deleted member 1740]

I have just purchased a new laptop which is a Windows 8 touchscreen, which has been fine until I posted on here. Any apostrophes, quote marks it replaces with #39 and all sorts. It removes my paragraphs also. I also experienced logging in problems when I returned to the forum. As No one else seems to be having problems it must be something with my settings, so like the title says any ideas please..........

Take it back the store you bought it from and swap it for a Mac

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Take it back the store you bought it from and swap it for a Mac

That is the best and only idea :thup:

 

[G1BB0]

the logging in issues were experienced by all of us. Have you tried clearing all cookies? Also are you typing it into word then copy/pasting into the website as it looks just like a formatting issue as opposed to a hardware problem

 

[PhilTheFragger]

try replying with quote, this brings up a different log in box,
Tick remember , that should solve your log in issues

The rest of it, see if you can locate control panel, then check your regional, locality and keyboard language settings

 

[John]

That is the best and only idea :thup:

Sorry to not add anything constructive but this really is the best option.....

I had log in problems too, I deleted every kind of stored password/cache/autofill etc and it worked.

 

[beau d.]

Thank you, that seems to have done the job, along with me randomly ticking and unticking boxes in my settings, so fingers crossed, strange one that

 

[MattM]

Hi

I know it's a bit redundant now it's fixed but in my fairly limited knowledge it's usually caused by copying and pasting directly from one web page to either a Word doc and then putting it online, or pasting it directly into an online text editor.

&#39 is the unicode / html code for an apostrophe ('). You may have now ticked / unticked a setting that allows unicode decoding?

If you copy some webpage text (i.e. html) and paste it into some other text editors it may not decode the &#39 as an apostrophe and you end up seeing the code instead, which is what has happened here.

If you need to paste something from different web page, i.e. not using the quote function, you can paste it into notepad first and then copy and paste that text. It will strip out the hidden html and you'll see exactly what text is going to appear.

Don't think it's a PC v Mac issue - that's a whole other thread ;-)