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Subject: * The text contains extended characters that are not allowed."...

A lot of the time I get this message, but I only ever use around 100 words or so. Does anyone know why this happens or how this can be stopped?

  • 07.29.2011 12:35 AM PDT
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Yeah, this is so freaking annoying. It's hard to know what part of your post is causing the problem.

I usually go through and cut sections then hit preview until I find the section that was the issue, and then I retype it and it normally works.

With the site update, it would be great if it was possible for the text box to highlight or remove extended characters.

  • 07.29.2011 12:39 AM PDT

Yes it would be great if they did that. It has happened a lot in my most detailed posts and it is really really tough to get rid of it which causes a lot of frustration. Thank you for the link but the convert didn't seem to work. I'm going to try to cutting. Thank you both

  • 07.29.2011 12:43 AM PDT

Thats... strange it could be a bug?

  • 07.29.2011 7:23 AM PDT

poor ilitch

Just copy and paste your post body into a text converter. That usually happens when you copy and paste something from another website.

  • 07.29.2011 10:41 AM PDT

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Posted by: AverageSol
A lot of the time I get this message, but I only ever use around 100 words or so. Does anyone know why this happens or how this can be stopped?

Everytime I've came across this problem it's when trying to paste something from a BWU.

I figured out that the BWU symbols are sometimes different than the regular, somehow. When I came across the problem I just removed the apostrophes in the paragraph I wanted to paste and typed them in manually (luckily there were only a few).

So it appears to be certain symbols, usually copied from somewhere, even if they look identical.

  • 07.29.2011 11:04 AM PDT

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Posted by: ExquisiteDragon
Here, use this. Paste your invalid text into the bottom box and select "convert". Your newly stripped text will be in the top box. Just copypasta it back into your post.
This. Essentially what's happening is that there are different characters handled by different sorts of text-boxes and forms.

Unicode is the sort of thing that gets transferred over from something like Microsoft Word, and usually extends to nothing more than ' " and the long version of -- but trying to replace all of these yourselves can be quite difficult and time-consuming.

So feel free to use the unicode stripper. We made it just for folk like yourself :)

  • 07.29.2011 11:07 AM PDT

Thank you for all your help. This makes sense because I commonly use microsoft word for my larger messages to help me see everything and not need to scroll :)
I found the sentance and all it was "We've been together ever since." Prehaps bungie.net had a problem with that xD But honestly thanks for all the help guys, I'll be saving these converters for later use.

  • 07.29.2011 11:13 AM PDT