# Strange charecters after redcloth usage **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 20, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-charecters-after-redcloth-usage/84374 "2006-03-20T22:57:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beachguy82](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@beachguy82](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/beachguy82)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-charecters-after-redcloth-usage/84374/1 "2006-03-20T22:57:20Z")
I’m using redcloth on my blog to transform my input into html. Alot of times if I type “I’ve” I’ll wind up with “I,ve” except that it’s not a comma but a very similar charecter. This is really killing my rss feeds. What’s causing this? How do I fix it? ---
**Author:** ![beachguy82](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@beachguy82](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/beachguy82)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-charecters-after-redcloth-usage/84374/2 "2006-03-20T22:59:20Z")
I just figured out that this happens when I cut and paste from open office. How can I stop this? charlie bowman wrote: > I’m using redcloth on my blog to transform my input into html. Alot of > times if I type “I’ve” I’ll wind up with “I,ve” except that it’s not a > comma but a very similar charecter. This is really killing my rss > feeds. What’s causing this? How do I fix it? ---
**Author:** ![beachguy82](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@beachguy82](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/beachguy82)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 8:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-charecters-after-redcloth-usage/84374/3 "2006-03-21T08:00:35Z")
> charlie bowman wrote: > > > I’m using redcloth on my blog to transform my input into html. Alot > > of > > > times if I type “I’ve” I’ll wind up with “I,ve” except that it’s not > > a > > > comma but a very similar charecter. This is really killing my rss > > feeds. What’s causing this? How do I fix it? charlie bowman wrote: > I just figured out that this happens when I cut and paste from open > office. How can I stop this? Um, don’t cut and paste from open office? 😉 Sorry, I couldn’t resist… Seriously though, do you have to paste from OO? I’ve seen the same aggravation happen with people writing their web content in Word and then pasting it into an html file. A good text editor is your friend… someone here just turned me on to programmers notepad the other day… pretty sweet. b ---
**Author:** ![beachguy82](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@beachguy82](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/beachguy82)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-charecters-after-redcloth-usage/84374/4 "2006-03-21T20:11:17Z")
A good text editor is indeed your friend. But most folks who use what I would consider a good text editor also hand code their html. I think that Redcloth and other tools to protect the user from that scary html code mostly cater to the crowd who compose in Word. So one of my criteria for a pseudomarkup language or rich text editor is now “how well does it clean up Word’s gunky font tags”. ---
**Author:** ![beachguy82](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@beachguy82](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/beachguy82)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-charecters-after-redcloth-usage/84374/5 "2006-03-21T20:15:53Z")
RedCloth is great for my blog. Who wants to hand code html into each blog post. It’s very nice to compose in open office (thak god fer spelchck) and then submit that to my blog. I just wish I knew how to get the character encoding correct! On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 11:10 -0800, Cynthia K. wrote: > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) Charlie B. Programmer Castle Branch Inc.