Apostrophes Gone Wild
If you want to set up your own blog, I certainly recommend using WordPress as the content management system on your own hosted domain. However, there is a glitch in WordPress that I’m hoping I’ve detected the source of (never end a sentence with a preposition, right?). To wit, because of something in PHP (the sourcing code) called Magic Quotes, apostrophes appear with slashes after them, such as “Dave\\\\\\\\s,” or something like that, so this post is purely a test to see if turning off Magic Quotes cures this problem. (Believe me, I spent a couple of hours doing Web searches trying to figure this out, so I’m praying for results here.)
Let’s try: Dave’s, Judy’s, Mack’s. How about single quotes: “He said he was ‘completely unprepared’.”
We’ll all know in a minute, or maybe not because it may just be certain browsers where this occurs, in which case I’ll have to wait to hear from my reader in Taipei.
