Don’t hit the space twice after a period. That was valid in the “paper era”…
First, I really appreciate the very quick response.
Since I’m not the writer of these posts, is there a way to screen out the double space? I’m a bit surprised that a two spaces in a row would cause this funny character to appear.
Does this happen in the database mySQL processes?
Before putting in this topic, I did check to make sure that the two offending lines were not in any of the wp-config files.
Roland,
Did you ever discover the cause? I have a client with a similar problem and I’d love to know if indeed it’s double spaces after the period that causes this. I too don’t have the offending lines in the wp-config and can find the characters in the database.
I have the same problem; here’s what I wrote in a similar thread:
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/187662
I have the same problem with 2.6.
It’s easy to reproduce too:
* Create new post.
* Use the “visual” editor.
* End your first sentence with a period (.) followed by two spaces.
* Begin and end another sentence.
If your character encoding on your browser is set to Unicode (UTF-8) you will see the two spaces after the period, but if you change it to Western (ISO-8859-1) you will see the funny A character (Â).
The funny A character makes it into the ‘post_content’ variable and into the DB; I have a custom plug-in I use to notify customers of new posts and the funny A gets sent out in those messages too.
Note: if you re-save your post, the funny A character goes away in your published post.
My Browser info.:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080703 Mandriva/2.0.0.16-1.1mdv2008.0 (2008.0) Firefox/2.0.0.16
