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Subject: Pasting problem?

Games I like:,
Half-Minute Hero
MBU
Portal
Halo 3 is the best Halo ever
Maps I like: Turf, Avalanche, Pylon, Sandbox, Breakpoint and many more.

I just posted some of my fanfic, but it says that it contains extended characters that are not allowed. What does this mean?

  • 02.20.2011 11:09 PM PDT

Don't cross the white line.

"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a Halo regular a fish, and he'll complain about the taste, color, type, size, where you found it, how you obtained it, whether or not you'll give him more fish later, and I don't know how many more things.And then when you give him another fish, he'll complain that it's not exactly like the first fish. Rinse and repeat."

I assume you wrote it in Microsoft Word? So called "extended characters" include apostrophes, speech marks, and other punctuation that Bungie.net doesn't allow.

Here's what you should do:

- Copy and paste your fan fic into Notepad
- Click "Edit" and scroll down to "Replace"
- Copy and paste punctuation from the fan fic into the "Find what" section
- Type in the corresponding punctionation into the "Replace With" section
- Repeat for all punctuation

Your fan fic should now be ready to copy and paste into Bungie.net. Write the whole thing in Notepad next time.

  • 02.21.2011 3:00 AM PDT

-Gr33n Knight

My stories:

Streams of Fire

Jiralhanae

copy and paste it here first. It will strip all the extended characters and such.

  • 02.21.2011 11:19 AM PDT