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Posted by Gorski
Jul 20, 2012 at 07:10 PM
If I have one wish for this forum, it’s that the problems with accents, special characters and smart quotes from cut-and-pasted text be fixed. It detracts from the experience and I know relatively simple to do.
Thanks in anticipation.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jul 20, 2012 at 11:33 PM
Mark, do I assume correctly that this is a request for Chris to implement a technical solution?
Or is it a suggestion for users to exclude such characters from their postings, at least until a technical solution is implemented?
Both sound reasonable (though I am always rather fearful of changes in the infrastructure of a Content Management System). However, in the latter case I am uncertain which characters I should exclude. I seem to remember the issue with “smart quotes” posted from Word; should I assume that anything outside of ANSI is a potential cause for trouble?
Posted by Cassius
Jul 20, 2012 at 11:52 PM
How trivial and ungrateful !
The individual who set up this forum, who maintains it and who probably pays for its continued existence on the Net deserves our gratitude, rather than an entirely inappropriate pickiness. The purpose of this forum is to share knowledge and experience, NOT to read each posting letter-by-letter.
Posted by Gorski
Jul 21, 2012 at 12:36 AM
It is a request for Chris to fix it. It is ungrateful.
And perhaps I should have done it privately (too late now. I did it impulsively, and I can’t delete the post). But when you have a site (sporting ads, however unprofitable they may be) that relies on user-contributed content, to have those same users look silly because they did the innocent thing and pasted text in the box, expecting it to look normal once submitted, only for their postings to be filled with question marks, that seems to lack gratitude as well.
Having done some web programming myself, I know the solution isn’t hard. And if he’d grant me access to the code, I’d fix it myself.
Apologies to those offended.
Posted by Gorski
Jul 21, 2012 at 12:37 AM
And obviously I don’t think it’s trivial. That’s an odd thing to say for people so devoted to the written word. Or perhaps you don’t have accents in your name, in your native language or use Word.