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

I just spent twenty minutes typing a topic and tried to post it but I got a error message saying "* The text contains extended characters that are not allowed."

The thing it that it is a very long post and contains several quotes and I have no idea what "extended characters" it is referring to. I've looked through it and I can't find them.

I would copy and paste it here so someone could tell me how to fix it but it can't because "* The text contains extended characters that are not allowed.".

Can someone help me please?

  • 08.09.2012 10:42 PM PDT
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I never had that warning, but then again I rarly make threads

  • 08.09.2012 10:43 PM PDT
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I understand nothing because my life is a conspiracy.

That happened to me. Paraphrase, my friend, paraphrase.

  • 08.09.2012 10:43 PM PDT

Tin shacks and catfish bones.

It's most likely punctuation like quotations, commas, hyphens, etc.

It would be nice if they added a visual aid to your post letting you know exactly what characters are not allowed.

  • 08.09.2012 10:43 PM PDT

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Happens to me a lot when I copy and paste from elsewhere on the internet. Often it is -, ", or ...

  • 08.09.2012 10:43 PM PDT

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  • 08.09.2012 10:44 PM PDT

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I'm either a fool or an inteligent man, depending on how sleepy or angry I am.

I originaly made an account on 07.27.2007 but I wanted to link my GT and made this account. Don't forget your passwords!

Here is what I do whenever I come across that problem:

Open google
type in "Bungie.net invalid characters"
open up a fourm page presented to me
click the link of a site that removes those characters
And you're done.


EDIT: Sven Nietzsche posted what I was talking about before I could post it myself. Posted by: Sven Nietzsche
Link.


[Edited on 08.09.2012 10:45 PM PDT]

  • 08.09.2012 10:44 PM PDT


Posted by: I ColdEmbrace I
It's most likely punctuation like quotations, commas, hyphens, etc.

It would be nice if they added a visual aid to your post letting you know exactly what characters are not allowed.


Tell me about it.

  • 08.09.2012 10:44 PM PDT


Posted by: lime013
That happened to me. Paraphrase, my friend, paraphrase.


What is a 'Paraphrase'?

  • 08.09.2012 10:45 PM PDT

I finally got it to work by retyping a lot of it, thanks for the help.

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=74086324&v iewreplies=true

  • 08.09.2012 11:44 PM PDT

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It's usually the hyphens for me.

  • 08.09.2012 11:47 PM PDT

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Posted by: Sven Nietzsche
Link.


This...THIS IS AMAZING!!!

  • 08.10.2012 12:12 AM PDT


Posted by: I ColdEmbrace I
It's most likely punctuation like quotations, commas, hyphens, etc.

It would be nice if they added a visual aid to your post letting you know exactly what characters are not allowed.


I would also love for the upcoming site update to have some form of indication, I always get it from quotations when I copy paste news storys in Groups.

  • 08.10.2012 12:58 AM PDT

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Let Sgt. Johnson die on Halo.

Did you copy and paste anything into your original topic? I've had weird looking apostrophes that were carried over when I copied a statement causing the forum to reject my post.

  • 08.10.2012 1:13 AM PDT

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Posted by: lime013
That happened to me. Paraphrase, my friend, paraphrase.
Bit difficult sometimes.

  • 08.10.2012 1:30 AM PDT

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Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Parse Invalid Text.
It works for me.

  • 08.10.2012 6:52 AM PDT

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Posted by: I ColdEmbrace I
It's most likely punctuation like quotations, commas, hyphens, etc.

It would be nice if they added a visual aid to your post letting you know exactly what characters are not allowed.

  • 08.10.2012 6:54 AM PDT
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  • 08.10.2012 6:59 AM PDT

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Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
Parse Invalid Text.
It works for me.
Best thing there is out there.

  • 08.10.2012 7:26 AM PDT
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Posted by: Sven Nietzsche
Link.

Thanks for bringing that in. And yes, there are scripts now that serve the same purpose.

The context of that tool is this thread, which explains why it happens.

  • 08.10.2012 9:16 AM PDT