form error
form error
Friday, January 13, 2017 - 02:29
I keep getting this error when i want to post something the forms, and some times it works but still very annoying. sometimes it takes a day before i can post again.
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I keep getting this error when i want to post something the forms, and some times it works but still very annoying. sometimes it takes a day before i can post again.
Hmm i just realized why, i like to write my post in a spellings checker and copy the text to the forum post page, but if i do that then i get the post error. if i don't copy any text and just type directly on the form it works just fine as i did posting these post.
Copying text from other applications can change the encoding. The forum has trouble with a lot of extended ANSI symbols, many if which look identical to UTF8 symbols (like left quotation marks looking like neutral quotation marks) if the text you're pasting contains those encodings it will give you the error above. Sometimes it helps to click "disable rich text" before clicking save.
--Medicine StormThis is a problem with the web trying to convert word processor generated HTML.
The solution is to copy and paste it into Notepad and then copy from Notepad into the comment box - all your issues will go away.
i tried doing it in notepad++ i guess it keeps the encoding...
it is kind of funny if i had this kind of feature at work it would be classified as a bug :}. would be cool if the error message could be changed to... The site does note like your version of html encoding try coping int to a program that does not crash when trying to convert it.
hehe anyways thanks for the explanation i now at least know why saves me a lot of problems.
We classify it as a bug as well. It just hasn't been resolved yet.
--Medicine StormUnfortunately, this is something that I have tried to resolve. Many, many times. I used to host a story site, and I had to deal with people copy and pasting their work from Word into a formatting text entry box like we use here - and there were a LOT of issues with it.
My final solution ended up with me creating an RTF file format converter that would render the document into simple HTML and forcing that as the method of entry. Entry of text for comments and stuff was restricted to unformatted text entry - which then strips Word formatting out and you're left with just the content.
Well ok then,it seemed from your post that it was known but no mention that it was a bug hence my comment. As long as you know about it it is fine it wont bother me again. Thanks for the help, and keep up the good work.
Edit: i am not mush of a web programmer but wouldent there be a open solution somewhere? i mean woordpress, joomla the sites i have used dont seem to have the problem. they are open right? but this is probebly a custom website so i guess its not as easy as that.
The problem is unfortunately taking formatted text and the underlying formatted code for this, and the formatted code generated by Word and Libre Office are, quite frankly, horrific - it overrides existing formatting to ensure the html porduced matches what you entered into the wordprocessor, and to do this it inserts class names without knowing if those names are used else where. This is, quite honestly an issue with wordprocessors and their formatting.
Most places will only allow unformatted text, and then use custom formatting, i.e. [b]bold[/b].
The editor used here allows for HTML formatting, so people can post just what they need - formatted text, inline images, etc, and see the result before it is posted.
Normally, I would recommend the switching of the entry to just plain text, but people do need it for when they are using the entry to post art as well - there is no distinction between a forum reply and a new content page.
The only thing I could suggest is to check if there is a newer version of this editor, which might be able to cope with Word.
Also, just to check - did you try using the "Cleanup messy code" button on the toolbar (next to the double quotes symbol) and see if that resolves the problem for you?
hehe code cleanup... its the (almost)same icon as copy format in word. so i missed it. ok can i make a sugestion, is there a way you could add some text explaining the issue like under the line "By submitting this form, you accept the Mollom privacy policy." It might help newcomers in the future. ether way i understand the problem now i wish whoever is tasked with fixing it a lot of luck becouse it does feel like a nightmare