Which problem are you talking about?
When you're perfectly good post is rejected by the server, either when you submit it or preview it, and the error message says "Not Acceptable".
This error is conveyed to your browser with HTTP Response Code 406. It's up to your browser how it displays this to you. Different browsers show it to you differently.
- With Chrome, you see a big "Not Acceptable" in the browser, and the browser tab says "406 Not Acceptable".
- Firefox seems to behave the same as Chrome.
- With Internet Explorer, you see a message that says "Internet Explorer cannot read this webpage format", and the browser tab says "HTTP 406 Not Acceptable".
Your post is being rejected by the server because of the letters (characters) you have used in your post.
Due to security-related changes, KevinsWatch now rejects posts with certain kinds of letters. All the letters you can get from your keyboard are fine. It's usually when you paste in text from fancy websites or fancy documents that you encounter this issue. For non-English, non-American members, you can also get into trouble using letters with diacritical marks, like ü.
In techno-jargon, your form submission is rejected if it contains any characters that are not Standard ASCII. Extended ASCII characters are rejected.
Well, what can I do about it?
Well, you can sometimes fix your issue with old fashioned labor.
- Look for any left-leaning or right-leaning single or double quotation marks, and replace them with the straight-up version you get from your keyboard.
- Similarly, replace any characters that look like a dash with a dash from your keyboard.
- Replace any characters with diacritical marks with vanilla versions of the character. E.g change ü to u.
If you really, really want those special characters, you can try this web site:Look up the problematic character in the table, and find the matching value in the "HTML Number" column. This will be a value like ü. Just use that HTML character sequence where you would use the special character - and don't forget that the semi-colon is part of the sequence. For example, enter Würd to get Würd.
But be forewarned: This process doesn't work in reverse. So if you wish to edit your post afterwards, or if someone wants to quote your post, it will have a bad character, and it will be rejected. The bad character would have to be found and then removed, or converted to an HTML character sequence again, before the post can be submitted. In short, doing this makes editing or quoting a pain.
Now that this problem will never bother me again, what should I do?
I am partial to flattery, and gifts are always welcome.
Better yet, if you see anyone having an issue, you can point them to this thread, and then they too will never be bothered again.