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General => Suggestions Box => Topic started by: Entsuropi on June 05, 2003, 09:17:53 PM

Title: bug report
Post by: Entsuropi on June 05, 2003, 09:17:53 PM

ARgh. For some reason, whenever i type either ' or - on this forum, it changes it to "–". I have to edit the post and change them back into - and '. No doubt i will have to do it for this post. Wierd, it goes gay on the initial posting, but it posts them normally on subsequent edits.

Title: Re: bug report
Post by: EUOL on June 05, 2003, 10:07:31 PM

I've had a similar problem with quotation marks, single or double.  With my problem, I found out it was because of Microsoft word's smart-quotes encoding.  If I wrote something in Word (so I could spellcheck it) then pasted it here, sometimes it messed up the quotes.  If I first pasted it in a text-only program, like notepad, then cut it again and pasted it into here, it never made the error.

Title: Re: bug report
Post by: Tage on June 06, 2003, 03:46:13 AM

The ' marks I believe come from the way variables are handled in Yabb. But the - thing I've never seen or heard of before. I looks like the post got everything right the first time when you posted this time. Do you only see that problem when you post pre-written things into the forum?

Title: Re: bug report
Post by: Entsuropi on June 06, 2003, 07:57:04 AM

Yeah. It pretty much always happens if i copy/paste it.

Title: Re: bug report
Post by: Tage on June 06, 2003, 12:39:10 PM

Well, unfortunately there's not much I can do about that. Microsoft stuff uses weird character encoding for most special characters, so if you paste those in to IE, it'll send them right along and get mangled the poor Perl/Unix server.

The best thing you can do is get a straight text editor and copy things from there. Notepad works for this, but I'd highly recommend SciTE.

Title: Re: bug report
Post by: Mistress of Darkness on June 06, 2003, 01:17:24 PM

What is SciTE and why do you recommend it?

Thanks.

Title: Re: bug report
Post by: Tage on June 06, 2003, 02:06:53 PM

Remember, google is your friend:
http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

SciTE is just a text editor, but it's a very friendly and useful one.

Title: Re: bug report
Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on June 06, 2003, 02:09:54 PM

Google is so not my friend. I try searching for Palm software/freeware and I get a bunch of crazy-go-nothing sites that don't really add up to much of anything.

Title: Re: bug report
Post by: Mistress of Darkness on June 06, 2003, 02:23:09 PM

Now is that friendly to you Tage, or to English majors too? ;) Thanks for the tip.

Title: Re: bug report
Post by: Entsuropi on June 06, 2003, 03:42:54 PM

Gemm's Google-Fu is weak. Tage has powerful Google-Fu. All hail Tage.

...

Actually, sod that.

Title: Re: bug report
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on June 06, 2003, 11:15:20 PM

Notepad does what I want

And I don't know about English majors, but CmLit majors do all right by google, even finding out of print copies of Star warriors pretty quick.

Title: Re: bug report
Post by: Mistress of Darkness on June 07, 2003, 10:35:44 PM

I was actually referring to SciTE. And I love Notepad, but it's so . . . black and white.