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Wrecker013 · 12-05-11, 04:22 PM

Thanks!

One quick question, what in the world is happening with some posts where it seems like some words or spaces are turned into this ****9038, a bunch of asterisks and then a bunch of random numbers?

frau kaleun · 12-05-11, 04:30 PM

Usually I think it's the result of a copy/paste of formatted text from another source, where the formatting is incompatible with regard to certain symbols and punctuation marks... so things like apostrophes don't copy/paste as simple text and get turned into ***8217 or something similar when the forum software tries to reproduce them. There was also an issue here with Cyrillic alphabet characters a while back IIRC, but I don't know if that's still the case.

Reece · 12-05-11, 04:54 PM

Hi, welcome to Subsim Wrecker!!

Gerald · 12-05-11, 05:23 PM

Magic1111 · 12-07-11, 07:04 AM

Welcome aboard!!!

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12-05-11, 04:22 PM	#1
Wrecker013 Swabbie Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Michigan Posts: 6 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	Thanks! One quick question, what in the world is happening with some posts where it seems like some words or spaces are turned into this ****9038, a bunch of asterisks and then a bunch of random numbers?

12-05-11, 04:30 PM	#2
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	Usually I think it's the result of a copy/paste of formatted text from another source, where the formatting is incompatible with regard to certain symbols and punctuation marks... so things like apostrophes don't copy/paste as simple text and get turned into ***8217 or something similar when the forum software tries to reproduce them. There was also an issue here with Cyrillic alphabet characters a while back IIRC, but I don't know if that's still the case.