It's possible the author wrote the message in Microsoft Word and copied the text over. Word uses smart or 'curly' quotes which don't always render correctly in browsers.
Hi!
I wanted to ask a follow up question after your response to this post. When posting in our Community, I often use the "Paste from Word" function. I noticed today that when I was using the Spell Check before posting it was showing anything with an apostrophe was spelled incorrectly. The words were not spelled wrong, but they did contain the "curly quotes" from word. After changing them to be a regular apostrophe, the word was not showing as misspelled. (Examples of the words that were "misspelled" We're or wouldn't)
Is this functioning as it was designed or is this something that is a possible bug?
Thanks!
Samantha
Hey Samantha
You're right, this does appear to be a bug with tinymce. We're rolling out a new version of the editor (v4) in which paste covers all pasting functions, ie there's no longer a separate Paste from word button. I thought perhaps this version might have ironed out this bug but unfortunately not. Tinymce is a 3rd party plugin, although we have some control over the spellcheck dictionary, many of the inbuilt functionality, including interpretation of pasted characters are simply used out of the box.
I'll check whether we have a process for reporting/following tinymce bugs and keep you updated with anything I find.
Regards
Noaman
