Please don't reopen old bugs. If something resurfaces, then it is a new bug, and needs separate treatment, and a separate issue.

This seems to have resurfaced.

I am trying to bold some text that contains a single smart quote ' and it stops rendering the text as bold and just renders the text as TEXT'TEXT with the astericks being rendered in full rather than hidden.

Guy: You might enter a separate bug on what you're seeing with the "?" characters. It's most likely a page encoding issue.

I'm seeing no such behavior with the smart quotes, and my issue is that formatting macros don't work when smart quotes are present, not with whether the smart quote characters themselves are preserved correctly.

I had this exact same problem with two site's I've recently worked on, both at:

http://www.back-academie-de-montreal.com

(behind the scenes it currently links to bam.adaptavist.com)

There are also similar problems for Euro and Pound (Sterling) symbols (probably most others) and also the ^TM symbol, etc. Confluence seems to replace them with ? but not always - it's quite odd. For example, if I add a new page with the ^TM symbol, it seems to work, for a while - when I edit the page, or come back to it a few days later, it stops working.

You can test this with the markup: foo “bar” baz

Please note, JIRA seems to have changed the smart quotes in my example into normal quotes. (And thus the example text, if pasted into a Confluence edit page textbox, will not reproduce the problem.)

I suggest retyping the same text in Microsoft Word, and copying-pasting that text into the edit page textbox. (This is how I original experienced the issue, and why I think it's important... often our content comes from Word documents or Outlook emails, which seem to use smart quotes for everything.)