Encoding in PM's changes symbols to questionmarks

I wanted to point out that in PM's certain symbols like apostrophes get changed into question marks, likely due to an encoding problem.

Did you write the PM from your phone? Because I have that issue but only from my phone not when I use an actual computer

Hm... it shouldn't matter phone or computer realistically speaking, but I'll look into it.

This happens often when copy/pasting from a pdf. It might be certain fonts are not recognized so the apostrophes are interpreted as the question mark.

Just for information, this happens on character sheets as well (at least Custom ones, not sure about others).

Yeah, I get this error when copying from an RTF (Mac TextEdit) into the site.

I think it's the utf8_decode in api/functions.php line 75.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode.php

I notice it when I'm typing on a phone and it decides to use curly apostrophes.

Here's a test string to use in a message.

utf8_decode said "That’s a ‘bad’ character."

Ah, that makes sense. The Mac Text Editor uses auto-correct to change " to ", for instance. (That is, straight quotes to "smart quotes.")

I'm not really sure what the idea is in that bit of code, so I'm going to leave it well alone for now. It's probably not there by accident.

Put it this way, I browsed @Keleth's check-in comments on that file...



...and I think it's a warning that here be dragons.

But it's not like people are going to stop using Apple devices any time soon. Perhaps if the code is going to sulk whenever it's given slightly unusual characters then we could at least replace smart quotes with straight quotes. Maybe?

I experienced this problem but only with custom sheets not my D&D 5e ones it was on a LG G3 phone, and It was probably result of copying from a PDF.

Yeah - it's not just messages. It's all over the shop.
That wasn't so much a "laugh out loud" as "cackle like a drain".

This is fixed and deployed.