character-entities

I'm gettign this strange character instead of an apostrophe on a page that's powered by Wordpress, but only in Internet Explorer. Other browsers (chrome, firefox) display as the actual apostrophe. ’ Can somebody tell me what the problem is? Here's the instance in question: http://cure.org/about/management-team/ You'll see under Dale Brantner, 4th staff member from the top, there in the first paragraph of his bio the word organization's and that is the instance which in IE I'm getting the above symbol instead of an apostrophe. I have tried both with the apostrophy character, and with the HTML

What's the HTML character entity for the # sign? I've looked around for "pound" (keeps returning the currency), and "hash" and "number", but what I try doesn't seem to turn into the right character. You can search it on the individual character at fileformat.info . Enter # as search string and the 1st hit will lead you to U+0023 . Scroll a bit down to the 2nd table, Encodings , you'll see under each the following entries: HTML Entity (decimal) # HTML Entity (hex) # The "#" -- like most Unicode characters -- has no particular name assigned to it in the W3 list of "Character entity references"

I've found this very interesting function on internet : CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION strip_tags(TEXT) RETURNS TEXT AS $$ SELECT regexp_replace(regexp_replace($1, E'(?x)<[^>]*?(\s alt \s* = \s* ([\'"]) ([^>]*?) \2) [^>]*? >', E'\3'), E'(?x)(< [^>]*? >)', '', 'g') $$ LANGUAGE SQL; But it doesn't remove html codes like: "   Is it possible to remove them using regexp_replace? Yes it is possible to replace HTML or other character entities with the respective characters using a function. First create a character entity table: create table character_entity( name text primary key, ch char(1) unique );