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jorndoe December 13, 2016 at 02:13 1275 views 4 comments

I was just posting some text with unicode characters in it, thumbs up and thumbs down (links below).
For some reason the two characters messed the text up, which might be worth reporting to the owners of the forum code.

Other characters, like mdash, arrows, and such, seems to be fine.

Thumbs up (128077): http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F44D/index.htm
Thumbs down (128078): http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f44e/index.htm

They can, however, be inserted as small images, by using Y and N in round brackets (below), so they're not missing as such, the unicode characters just mess up posts containing them.

Thumbs up using markup: (Y)
Thumbs down using markup: (N)

Comments (4)

Pierre-Normand April 03, 2017 at 16:25 #64202 0 likes

I wonder if other users experienced this. When I select some portion of a message that I want to reply to, there appears a floating button labelled "Quote". The normal behavior when I click on that button is that the selected text then automatically is copied in the edit box below, properly tagged. The trouble is that this button often doesn't work. When I click on it, the selected text gets deselected but nothing gets copied below. I have to re-select the text and click again on the "Select" button. Sometimes it works on the first or second try. Something on the 20th try. I've no idea why it works sometimes and most of the time not.

jorndoe June 11, 2017 at 23:02 #76892 0 likes

Weird. For a bit I've had this showing up when logging in:

User image

But there isn't anything new in the Inbox. What gives?

Sir2u September 28, 2017 at 03:20 #108948 0 likes

I am have problems with the quote function again. Last time after a couple of days it went away, but now it seems as though it is here to stay.

I can select the text and the quote button appears but in the right hand upper corner. When I click on it nothings happens.

Anyone got any ideas how to fix it?

Sir2u September 30, 2017 at 04:21 #109768 0 likes

OK, thanks if someone found the problem and fixed it for me, but now it works again, so if no one did anything then I guess I should just give a nod to Murphy, but if you did fix it for me I am grateful even if I still don't really understand anything about why it happens, or whether it will happen again sometime, which I hope it doesn't because it can be a real pain.

Oh yeah, thanks.