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Old Mar 23, 2026 | 05:11 PM
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I've been seeing some garbled text lately. I believe it's mostly apostrophe's, but I'm not completely sure on that. See the photo below. I've seen similar cases on multiple threads from different users.


Old Mar 23, 2026 | 05:15 PM
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Oh yeah, me too! I've just been ignoring it but I guess I'll start grabbing screenshots... Ah, here's one that just started happening...
That title used to look normal...
That title used to look normal...
Old Mar 23, 2026 | 05:49 PM
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I thought this only happened in my posts, one of which you quoted above. I?m glad to see it?s not just me.

When I?m in the garage, I post from iOS using the Brave browser.

When I?m in the house, I post from MacOS, also using Brave.

Occasionally, when I have the tuning laptop out, I post from Windows, also using Brave.

I haven?t figured out why apostrophes work right sometimes, but not others.

This post is from iOS.
Old Mar 23, 2026 | 05:50 PM
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I'm in the house for this post. It's cold in here. And there are wolves after me.

But hopefully this'll help things: this is MacOS.
Old Mar 23, 2026 | 05:53 PM
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Well now there are "?" symbols everywhere, not sure if that was intentional.


I'm on Chrome on Windows

Question Mark ?
Apostrophe '
Old Mar 23, 2026 | 05:53 PM
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Now I'm out in the garage with the tuning laptop (Windows). It's hot out here.
Old Mar 23, 2026 | 05:58 PM
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Yeah, I think I got it now.

This is an apostrophe ?

This is ?single quotes?
Old Mar 23, 2026 | 05:59 PM
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Nope, I do not have it. But it does seem to be an iOS thing.
Old Mar 24, 2026 | 11:26 AM
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Thank you for bringing this up. I thought it was just my account acting up.
Old Mar 24, 2026 | 12:09 PM
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If the sysadmins read this, I'm guessing you upgraded MySQL servers recently and the default charset changed. That should put you on the right debugging path but DM if you want more info.
Old Mar 25, 2026 | 05:05 PM
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@Robb M. Not sure if you're the right person for it, but are you able to help?
Old Mar 26, 2026 | 12:47 PM
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which of the four ios apostrophes is it?

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Old Mar 26, 2026 | 12:49 PM
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yeah, that's a problem.
Old Mar 26, 2026 | 01:29 PM
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On the upside I guess it's easier for people to ask questions now?
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Old Mar 26, 2026 | 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by SimBa
On the upside I guess it's easier for people to ask questions now?
I'm Ron Burgandy?
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