Starting today, I see characters like quotes or apostrophes or dashes expressed as what I think are escape characters in multiple posts. Here's an example.

Quote
“Uh-huh.”

instead of

Quote
"Uh-huh."

I'm baffled. I tried this in both Firefox and Chrome with identical results. I'm only seeing this in posts earlier than 7/19/20 (today). Any tech advice? Maybe there's a setting on the browser I could change.



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