Problems with posting

catty_big · July 22, 2017, 08:48:01 AM

Hope someone can help me. I've been trying to post a reply in a thread I've got going, and it keeps saying 'Non-English characters are not permitted'. However, there aren't any; moreover, I've already posted several times in the same thread without seeing this message. Any idea what might be happening?

brettmb · July 22, 2017, 10:14:53 AM

Try PMing the post to me.

catty_big · July 22, 2017, 09:44:29 PM

Thanks, will give that a go.

catty_big · July 22, 2017, 09:54:59 PM

Yep, that worked. Had to split it into two parts due to its exceeding the character limit for messages. If you can reattach them in the one reply them brilliant, if not no worries.

brettmb · July 22, 2017, 10:11:33 PM

Looks like you copied and pasted from a word processor with typographer's quotes/apostrophes. If you replace them with regular ASCII versions, it should work fine.

catty_big · July 22, 2017, 11:49:35 PM

Thanks, I'll give that a go. I don't understand the difference between those two formats but I'll ask some computer-savvy friends.

catty_big · July 25, 2017, 06:32:23 PM

'Tis done

. In the end I edited all the slanted apostrophes and quote marks in the reply field in the thread. The error message told me how many there were, so it was simply a matter of finding and changing them all. Thanks for your help.

brettmb · July 25, 2017, 08:42:08 PM

I'm going to try to have it change them automatically when I get some free time.

catty_big · July 26, 2017, 07:52:41 AM

Quote from: brettmb;978229I'm going to try to have it change them automatically when I get some free time.

That would be brilliant

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brettmb · July 26, 2017, 12:19:19 PM

I added a little coding to replace fancy quotes and hyphens to regular ones for the web.

catty_big · July 26, 2017, 02:24:42 PM

Quote from: brettmb;978417I added a little coding to replace fancy quotes and hyphens to regular ones for the web.

Awesome !:).

brettmb · July 26, 2017, 04:46:28 PM

Don't get too excited until we see how well it works

catty_big · July 28, 2017, 08:43:03 PM

Quote from: brettmb;978503Don't get too excited until we see how well it works

Good advice, especially as, er, it doesn't seem to be

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It's doing something very strange now: it's telling me how many 'non-English' apostrophes and quote marks there are, but when I've zapped them all it says this:[ATTACH=CONFIG]1185[/ATTACH]

In other words it acknowledges that there are zero errors, but it's still not accepting the submission.

brettmb · July 28, 2017, 09:38:59 PM

I think it's some strange line breaks. And it shouldn't say anything about apostrophes and quote - just replace them. It sounds like an encoding issue.

I'll look into it.

catty_big · July 29, 2017, 07:52:49 AM

Thanks.