Not sure if this is the right place, and mainly just curious.
Once in a while I will come across a story and the formatting seems odd. An example it’s(from a story on a different site, just fast to find), instead of it's.
Does anyone know what happens, in easy terms?
I think the very odd story on SOL might have this happen also,but can be mistaken, think it happens mainly on other sites.
It's a text encoding problem with the "smart quotes" that give the curved right/left single and double quotes.
It happens in documents as well as on-line.
https://support.docuware.com/en-us/knowledgebase/article/KBA-36899
Apostrophes replaced with "’" during CSV data import
This behavior occurs when the character used as an apostrophe is a "right single quotation mark" character (').
This is a universal issue with character encodings and is not specific to DocuWare. If you open the CSV in Microsoft Excel, you will see the same result. When opening the CSV file in Excel, the right single quotation mark character is converted into the "’" symbol. DocuWare simply reads the CSV as is. This is because Excel opens the CSV file using the default Windows encoding (Windows-1252); hence, the character is encoded as per the Windows-1252 character set.
See also:
https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/cmhnm/why_you_see_%C3%A2_instead_of_an_apostrophe/
The same kind of thing can happen for basically the same reason with subtitles in movies/TV shows during playback. I see those at times with ü on occasion, as well as the 'smart' quotes.