wayfriend wrote:Yep. We should get someone to fix it.
We only see you when things break Vain. For shame.Vain wrote:Testing out this weirdo issuePlease be patient
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WATCH ERRORS!!! Vain - HELP!!!
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Yay. I've been having consistent problem with this...wayfriend wrote:There's an extended ascii character somewhere. Probably looks like a quote or a dash, or it may be a letter with a diacritical mark.I'm Murrin wrote:I'm getting a "Not Acceptable" error when trying to post in Gen SF/F right now. Post is just a URL and quote of an awards shortlist, it's saying it can't find an appropriate representation of posting.php.
I was able to track down the culprit, today: “
Errm, maybe convention says I should say "“"
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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wayfriend wrote:Welcome to the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. If you want to post in this forum, speak English.
Do you know, I never knew before now what ascii stood for. It never occurred to me that it did stand for something.
(Which is pretty odd, because I'm well aware of the fact that everything stands for something in computers, like hypertext transfer protocol, etc.)
(Speaking of which, I see discussions that http2 is probably going to become the default standard.)
[EDIT:That post just got refused because I quoted WF's post. As soon as I took out the code for the pound sign, it worked...]
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You can subvert post rejection by using &#nnn; (including the semi-colon) in your post, if you look up the Extended ASCII code to use for nnn. However, it's not preserved in the database that way (like using [b]bold[/b] is preserved) so when you quote it, it's turned back into an offensive character. [ASCII Codes]Avatar wrote:[EDIT:That post just got refused because I quoted WF's post. As soon as I took out the code for the pound sign, it worked...]
Hacking is fun, ¥º.
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riiight.. hah!Avatar wrote:[EDIT:That post just got refused because I quoted WF's post. As soon as I took out the code for the pound sign, it worked...]
Well, as things go, this worked out as an awesome pre-emptive warning for me.wayfriend wrote:You can subvert post rejection by using &#nnn; (including the semi-colon) in your post, if you look up the Extended ASCII code to use for nnn. However, it's not preserved in the database that way (like using [b]bold[/b] is preserved) so when you quote it, it's turned back into an offensive character. [ASCII Codes]
I just thought I was going to have to pore through a longish post I wrote in Dor. Corishev and try to figure out where and how I could possibly have slipped in a non-ascii character. (there was nothing I'd copy-pasted from an outside website this time!)
Saw this comment, and immediately looked at Cord Hurn's post I was quoting.
It contained the dreaded left-quote. and the dreaded right-quote as well, I think.
Hah.wf wrote:Hacking is fun, ¥0.
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
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We'd better figure out what we're doing with the Watch soon, before our software is made altogether redundant.
We'd better figure out what we're doing with the Watch soon, before our software is made altogether redundant.
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I started an infotopic about this. See The "406 Not Acceptable" Thread. Point confused people at this.I'm Murrin wrote:Well, that's annoying. I had to replace all the quotation marks and apostrophes.
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