****8217 and ****8216 etc in posts

[lee_hdi]

I've noticed recently that ****8216 and ****8217 appears in posts. Can anyone tell me what it means?

I've attached a screen shot as an example

Heres the link to the original thread - http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums...manager-10997/

[mikiemo]

Its microsoft Word, When someone uses word to transfer an article to here Word dose this at every comma I think

regards, Mikie.

[patkins]

I was wondering myself, what with all that text and stuff nowadays.

[steppenwolf]

I had the same problem but only with PM`s I got from someone who writes on my language with ***1063; ***1035; ***1064; ***1026; ***1033; ***1034;

***1046;***1077;***1083;***1080;***1084; ***1089;***1074;***1080;***1084;***1072; ***1089;***1088;***1077;***1115;***1085;***1077; ***1087;***1088;***1072;***1079;***1085;***1080;** *1082;***1077;!

And that works again... I wrote I wish all happy holidays on Serbian and look what I got

[Kalipo]

I think its because the font used in the origional text is not a font installed on the server.. ..

[Devilfish]

I don't really know myself to be honest.

[HiTeck]

Yeah it's to do with copying and pasting from documents saved in a format the forum doesn't understand i.e unicode ANSI UTF8 etc.



The same can happen when using FTP.

[Meat-Head]

***1087;***1088;***1072;***1079;***1085;***1080;** *1082;***1077;! I wish all happy holidays on Serbian and look what I got

Can you write that again but

1) put it in quotes
2) put in it code
3) space out the words like he llo
4) Have noticed some posts you link to come up as that thread
some come up jumbled. e.g.

http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/f398477

Another time will come up like
seat leon 2010

[HiTeck]

I understand what your trying to do there Meat-head to remedy the problem but if said user copies and pastes it via there pm on the forum or anywhere else on the forum it will appear the same in code-quotes etc.

This will only happen again if said user copies it from original source whether it be word - txt etc.

Once it's on here, copying it will be the same, I have my own forum and have come across the same issue.

Be that said I hope I am wrong but there is info explained here on how this works out.

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/reference/characters/

Seriously its not worth looking into.

[Meat-Head]

I have my own forum and have come across the same .

So if you then cut and paste this into your own form

digital-kaos is the worlds best website

does it come up corrupt?
then type above on your forum - cut and paste back

[bonus2010]

I've noticed this problem on other forums also..... Here on DK, if I'm copy and pasting, from either word or internet I'll paste into a text editor first, then from there into DK. Avoids the errors.

In newer versions of VBulletin there is icons for 'copy from word' or 'copy from text'

It also helps in avoiding code errors if code editing is enabled, unlike here

[HiTeck]

It's nothing to do with between forum copying and pasting, it is when a member copies something from a word doc or notepad doc etc, when it has been saved in an unknown format that a forum can not interpret.

If I upload something to my server, say the index.php in anything but UTF8, when I went back and looked at it it would not read the same state as I uploaded it in.

I am sure DF will know what I am talking about, I was just trying to explain what causes this issue.

Editing anything already sent to you wont make a difference.

[Meat-Head]

Editing anything already sent to you wont make a difference.

So how come Mr Wolf types 'happy hollidays' in his default software it does it?

Mr Wolf - can you link to your local newspaper so we can type some text for a laugh

[HiTeck]

Lets forget I know anything, I gave my reason for this, I maybe wrong and often are, what does Meat Head think is causing this issue......

[satsmo]

Hi mate, I think you would be better off phrasing that as what does the issue think of Meat-Head

It's a common bug as you said and something that need to be looked at from a VB perspective I think.