Title: Problem with ‘s
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problem with ‘s

 *  [yogadave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yogadave/)
 * (@yogadave)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-s/)
 * As you can see [here](http://barackobamabiography.org/), anywhere I have a ‘ 
   I get a strange ?. I added the content with it inside index.php of my theme. 
   Is there any way to get rid of them? Thank you!

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 *  [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsec/)
 * (@wpsec)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-s/#post-973539)
 * Yes. First of all do not write content in a word processor and then try to paste
   it directly into the WordPress post/page editor. If you must use a word processor
   to write text then always copy the text to the clipboard, paste it into Notepad(
   assuming that you use Windows – if not then some other plain text editor), THEN
   recopy it to the clipboard from the plain text editor and then paste it into 
   the WordPress editor.
 * By doing that you’ll strip out all the wacky characters.
 * Or you could just load Firefox browser to write posts in WordPress since Firefox
   has a pretty good spell checker built right in 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [yogadave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yogadave/)
 * (@yogadave)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-s/#post-973542)
 * I DID use Word but I just tried pasting the first paragraph from word to notepad
   to my theme and the problem persists 🙁
 * Please note this is in my index.php theme file, not within a wordpress post. 
   Couple that be causing the problem?
 *  [Mark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsec/)
 * (@wpsec)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-s/#post-973555)
 * You might have to start with some clean text because now the odd quote chars 
   and apostrophes have already been converted to funky chars due to character set
   incompatibilities. Bummer. I don’t know of a way to fix that without manually
   changing them all one by one. That’s not to say there isn’t a way, I just don’t
   know of one offhand.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-s/#post-973555)
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