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More gremlins

By Michael Becker | Published: February 22, 2010
Here we go again: Similar to the last time I mentioned this issue: Or the time before that: Or, god help us, the time before that . Would we let errors like this slip into the print version?
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Gremlins!

By Michael Becker | Published: February 3, 2010
More encoding “gremlins” snuck into the poll this week. Please, please, turn off “smart quotes” on your machine if you must continue using Microsoft Word to compose. Better yet, use a plain text editor such as Notepad (on Windows) or TextWrangler (on Mac) to write everything that goes onto the Web. This just looks bad.
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More poll issues

By Michael Becker | Published: January 6, 2010
We really need to make sure that we’re catching this sort of thing when the polls go up live. It’s best to draft everything for the Web in a plain text editor, such as Notepad on Windows or TextEdit or TextWrangler on OS X. This sort of thing has happened before, as you might recall.
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Our own version of FAIL blog

By Michael Becker | Published: December 20, 2009
In addition to the obvious encoding problem (which is caused by smart or curly quotes being pasted into a form in the admin area of our site) (and by the way, there shouldn’t be an apostrophe in that word anyhow), there’s a bit of a logical problem inherent in the answers here. If you don’t [...]
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