Apostrophe's get changed

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John Lacey
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Apostrophe's get changed

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When I read apostrophe's on the forum, they come out as question marks with 4 sided borders around them. How can I get that back to original?
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Get your doctor to change your medications. :lol:
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Maybe it's a gentle admonition from the Forum software, reminding you not to use apostrophes to form plurals.
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John Lacey wrote:When I read apostrophe's on the forum, they come out as question marks with 4 sided borders around them. How can I get that back to original?
What browser make and version are you using? Are you blocking JavaScript, or using any special accessibility settings?
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Earnest Bovine wrote:Maybe it's a gentle admonition from the Forum software, reminding you not to use apostrophes to form plurals.
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One of your pet peeves too? I think people do that sometimes thinking the more punctuation they use, the more correct their spelling is. Thanks for the laugh.

This is akin to debating the virtues of using a semi-colon in polite society.
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John Lacey wrote:When I read apostrophe's on the forum, they come out as question marks with 4 sided borders around them. How can I get that back to original?
Maybe something in the background, some page you visited, etc, changed your browser's default font.
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apostrophe's on the forum, they come out as question marks with 4 sided borders around them
I was getting that a couple of weeks ago, but now it's not doing it anymore. Not sure why, what, or where...
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John Lacey
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Most of the time I use Google Chrome version 31.0.1650.57
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John Lacey
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Ya, it has been kinda intermittent, so I guess I should not complain.
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