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I appreciate it. Thank you Dan.

Thanks Diva !

Do themes need to be written in HTML5 now?

I have not yet tried PHPMyAdmin.

Where does one get that?

Thank you !

I switched to the Twenty Eleven theme with a GB of memory and plug-ins off, but nothing changes.

I’ll try resetting the plug-ins folder.

I was hoping I could avoid your third point. ??

Incorrect-o-mundo: I learned good stuff from you.

I figured the only configuration change would be to ensure I had a Web font selected, which is why I noted “Verdana” in the opening post. Safari did recently have a major update to v5, so they could have introduced the bug with it.

I’ll attempt to file a report with Apple.

Thanks for your help, Diva ma’am. I usually figure stuff out myself, but if another unsolved mystery turns up, we’ll chat again.

Curve ball.

The culprit appears to be the browser: Safari 5.0.3

I did all the things that would change the quotes and mess-up the code, using Google Chrome, and I could not replicate the problem. Each preview was correct.

I performed the exact same changes using Safari, and on the first preview, I immediately had messed-up code.

Ms E Diva

Thank you. Good suggestions. Is the Twenty-Ten theme one to test all others?

Have you heard of this before? Considering that I am in the admin area entering text, and even without touching those quotes that change, do you really think it can be theme related? I don’t believe it ever occurred before WP 3.0.1.

I have always entered my posts directly into WP (HTML), but that’s where the problems now occur. To fix the broken code, I copy the post and paste it into BBedit which quickly tells me where the curly quotes appear. I replace the curly quotes, copy and paste back to WP, save, preview, and everything is fine.

It only seems to occur when I enter text into the WP post field and save that the code breaks.