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   Alex Hall (alexhall@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 20:40:56 JST Alex Hall

   I think The Verge recently changed something. As I read, I'm hearing Euro sign, broken bar, and other even less common symbols instead of apostrophes and quotes. It's annoying, because speech synthesizers don't know how to handle such symbols when they're used this way, so it can be distracting at best and hard to understand at worst.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 20:46:48 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @alexhall That sounds like an encoding problem - but I don't see it, neither in Firefox on the laptop nor in Safari on the iPhone. I let VoiceOver read out a part with an apostrophe and it did it correct. Firefox on the laptop has a menu item "Repair text encoding" in the "view" menu, but it's grayed out, so it thinks the encoding is correct. Is it one particular page? Could you have changed an encoding setting in your browser by accident?