Text editors

I had a teacher who constantly was not able to post things to his classes forums. I would type out whole lengths and varieties of text and post it no problem, even with his computer AND his account. But when he would type at the same computer with the same account at the same forum he MIGHT get one sentence, but then nothing. He seemed gynxed.

But through a long trial and error and elimination process I found the two major reasons why he couldn't post things:

1. the HTML editor doesn't seem to handle quotation marks that have been copied and pasted from Microsoft Word. I believe it has something to do with Word's "Smart Quotes" scripting. So anything that he typed after a quotation mark (including the quotation mark itself) was deleted.
   
2. He was taught to type on an old typwriter and therefore believed that there should be a "double-space" after each period. Well, the HTML editor doesn't like that either. So anything he tpyed after a double-space was deleted.
   

I'm curious to see if others have the same problem. Just as a test here I will type a double space and attach a screen shot of what I typed here.

The next thing I will type now is a double space: if you can read this then my system has a problem which this system does not have and I'd like to know what the fix is
And here is a copy and pasted quote from MS Word: Here is a quote

I can see now (I've edited this post now twice). That both of these problems don't exist here on this system. But they certainly exist on mine. Any suggestions...