Strange characters behind text

try providing a link to your site. It very difficult to determine the cause without seeing it.

Oh yes, sorry ??

See this page for instance https://www.samvriti.com/newsletter/newsletter-october-2015/

Thanks!

Samuel

I didn’t see it when I went to your site. It could be related to just one browser or device. If you can try accessing your site with different browsers and devices.

Samuel,

It looks like some of the letters are using HTML character codes instead of plain letters, and this is being interpreted differently across browsers: https://pics.competethemes.com/image/1k233x244241

What you can do is visit the Post in the editor, make sure the Visual tab is selected (screenshot), and copy the text to your clipboard. Then, switch from Visual to Text and paste in the text you copied.

This should stop the editor from interpreting the characters as HTML character codes, and force it to use the plain letters.

Dear Mrtom414, Dear Ben,

Thanks a lot – I have tried your suggestions but did not reach any satisfactory result. Ben, in either the visual or the text tab, the texts are clean…

I tried one thing that worked: removing the “div class’ of the plugin Hyphenator. It is a really nice plugin, which never raised any issue till date, but probably clashed with something here. Interestingly, I went to the page of the September newsletter, finalised a month back, and those strange characters appeared suddenly yesterday, there too…! But, when I check a few essay pages on the website, the characters seem to appear nowhere.

One specificity of the newsletter pages is that they contain two css codes you helped me find, Ben: the no-underline one for links, and especially the one about image size in boxes. I guess there may be a clash there… with a lack of update on the part of the plugin developers of Hyphenator.

Do you think that makes sense? ??

Samuel

That sounds right to me. I would suggest letting the authors of Hyphenator know, so they can check it out and provide a permanent fix.

Yes, that is right, will do. Thanks for your help!

Samuel

See https://github.com/mnater/Hyphenator/issues/239