Did something horrible happen to the forum format, or is my browser fucked?
..never mind, it just healed itself...
Probably the same switch to the mobility site issue that BV experienced.
Test. I'm getting "non-standard characters" when I try to post.
What sort of non-standard characters?
I don't know about these guys, but I quoted Tristram Evans the other day and until I dropped the quote part, I couldn't post. Got a red message telling me I couldn't use the Nonstandard Characters " '''' " which... wasn't in anything I wrote or quoted. Four apostrophes in a mass. It... might have said something about european characters, but I can't recall for or against, much less the exact statement.
Quote from: Spike;956341I don't know about these guys, but I quoted Tristram Evans the other day and until I dropped the quote part, I couldn't post. Got a red message telling me I couldn't use the Nonstandard Characters " '''' " which... wasn't in anything I wrote or quoted. Four apostrophes in a mass. It... might have said something about european characters, but I can't recall for or against, much less the exact statement.
The system is finding non-ascii characters, typically copied from MS WORD. It's meant to stop all those chinese spammers we had. I'll try to work up a filter to fix special english characters, but no promises. Until then, you'll need to weed out weird characters in posts on your own.
I'v found now when I get that message I cut the text, paste it into the browser address window, then re-copy it and paste it back into the message and it lets me post.