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schillid
Possibly too long?
Also maybe embedded formatting characters?
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Try copy/pasting into a text editor;
Then convert from "Rich text" to "plain text" ;
Then look for weird-looking text characters, TAB characters, delete them manually (or search and replace...)
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Hairball
Why not just post a link to the article?
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schillid
Possibly too long?
Also maybe embedded formatting characters?
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Try copy/pasting into a text editor;
Then convert from "Rich text" to "plain text" ;
Then look for weird-looking text characters, TAB characters, delete them manually (or search and replace...)
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Hairball
Why not just post a link to the article?
No, when I see that myself, just a link, I am much less likely to read it, so I have just dug out the most important parts in hopes that other folks, like me, are more likely to read it. Maybe I just fear having to spend a lot of time reading an entire article when all I want, most of the time, is to look at the important parts. Even if it is a full article, I am more likely to read it on the board rather than going to the original article. Guess I am just lazy. Or as Johnny Rotten put it "I'm a lazy sod!"
Also, I have bolded the most significant parts so it is easy for folks to just scan down through it. And I do provide the link to the full article at the end.
plexi
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Rockman
eeeeerrrr eeeerrr tim why didnt you just
copy/paste the three parts into one thread ….????
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bv
On rare occations you might get such an error when posting on the IORR forum:
Phorum Database Error
Sorry, a Phorum database error occurred.
The error message has been written
to the phorum-sql-errors.log error log.
Please try again later!
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The reason is because the forum software "think" something is wrong with the text you are trying to post. I might hire hundred sofdtware engineers to find the problem, but as it do only do occure very rarely, I would rather post the WORKAROUND i.e. how to fix the problem here.
1. Rather than posting the text you do intend to post, just post something simple, like "test"
2. After having posted the dummy text, do an "Edit post" and change it into the text you intended to post.
If the problem is not going away with this fix, please let me know, or post here.
This thread will be sticky for a few days. Also, I will post a link to it it into the "Forum links of interest" seaction, as linked up from the home page.
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Rockman
eeeeerrrr eeeerrr tim why didnt you just
copy/paste the three parts into one thread ….????
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timbernardis
Next, I open Notepad, try to copy and paste the Word document, but when I try to save it, I get this message:
This file contains characters in Unicode format which will be lost if you save this file as an ANSI encoded text file. To keep the Unicode information, click Cancel below and then select one of the Unicode options from the encoding dropdown list. Continue?
plexi
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timbernardis
I can't find the Encoding dropdown list. So, what to do???
plexi
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Koen
This forum only accepts ASCII??? What is it running on, Windows 95 (Start me up) ?
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bvQuote
Koen
This forum only accepts ASCII??? What is it running on, Windows 95 (Start me up) ?
Absolutely not. You may enter any text or character you do have available on your keyboard into the IORR forum. Includingthe entire utf8/unicode tables etc..
U+00C0 À c3 80 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
U+00C1 Á c3 81 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
U+00C2 Â c3 82 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
U+00C3 Ã c3 83 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE
U+00C4 Ä c3 84 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
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U+00D0 Ð c3 90 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH
U+00D1 Ñ c3 91 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH TILDE
U+00D2 Ò c3 92 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
U+00D3 Ó c3 93 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
U+00D4 Ô c3 94 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
U+00D5 Õ c3 95 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH TILDE
U+00D6 Ö c3 96 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
U+00D7 × c3 97 MULTIPLICATION SIGN
U+00D8 Ø c3 98 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE
U+00D9 Ù c3 99 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
U+00DA Ú c3 9a LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
U+00DB Û c3 9b LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
U+00DC Ü c3 9c LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
U+00DD Ý c3 9d LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
U+00DE Þ c3 9e LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN
U+00DF ß c3 9f LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
U+00E0 à c3 a0 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
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The problem, or rather saying what you CAN NOT post into the forum, is elephants and roosters and cars and other sorts or items or graphics or complex structures that you will never be able to reconstruct on a keyboard.
It is very s9mple. If you can't copy a text into IORR, then just CTRL-C and CTRL-V into Notepad, then CTRL_C in Notepad and CTRL-V into IORR. No need to save at all, just paste through a system that doers not try to preserve complex structures that do not have anything to do in a written context.
It is not rocket science. Just type it, or paste it. If the pasting don't work, then there is some unwanted stuff in your paste buffer, get rid of it. OIt is like bringing food into Australia. Not allowed.
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bv
It is very s9mple. If you can't copy a text into IORR, then just CTRL-C and CTRL-V into Notepad, then CTRL_C in Notepad and CTRL-V into IORR. No need to save at all, just paste through a system that doers not try to preserve complex structures that do not have anything to do in a written context.
It is not rocket science. Just type it, or paste it. If the pasting don't work, then there is some unwanted stuff in your paste buffer, get rid of it. OIt is like bringing food into Australia. Not allowed.
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bv
It is very s9mple. If you can't copy a text into IORR, then just CTRL-C and CTRL-V into Notepad, then CTRL_C in Notepad and CTRL-V into IORR. No need to save at all, just paste through a system that doers not try to preserve complex structures that do not have anything to do in a written context.
It is not rocket science. Just type it, or paste it. If the pasting don't work, then there is some unwanted stuff in your paste buffer, get rid of it. OIt is like bringing food into Australia. Not allowed.
What about when you copy something then right click and choose "Paste as Plain Text" instead of just "Paste"?
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The SicilianQuote
bv
It is very s9mple. If you can't copy a text into IORR, then just CTRL-C and CTRL-V into Notepad, then CTRL_C in Notepad and CTRL-V into IORR. No need to save at all, just paste through a system that doers not try to preserve complex structures that do not have anything to do in a written context.
It is not rocket science. Just type it, or paste it. If the pasting don't work, then there is some unwanted stuff in your paste buffer, get rid of it. OIt is like bringing food into Australia. Not allowed.
What about when you copy something then right click and choose "Paste as Plain Text" instead of just "Paste"?
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