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Johnny B:
Hello all

First let me say thanks for helping in advance

PROBLEM:

Just installed, made a few posts, all has went well until tonight.

Been playing with members making posts. When a member makes a post not all of the post will show up. Example I made a post that had 10 sentences and only 2 show.  I did toggle a few settings today but for the life of me don't remember putting a limit of characters in a post.

Latest version being used, just installed yesterday 2.02


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Storman™:
Was that a one off or does it happen all the time ?

Johnny B:
Thanks for the reply.

Did a lot of testing last with newly created members rotating posts through various boards and it seems to be one particular post. All members in all boards can post what they want and as much as they want. But, no mater who posts including admin this one post will only allow 2 sentences to be posted. When I write the post, I can view and all is there and looks good - but, when I hit the post button only 2 sentences show. Strange because there is no foul language .  Anyway here is the post:

Arantor:
It's those quote marks, they're invalid code under some circumstances.

Take a backup, then convert the forum to UTF-8 from the maintenance area.

MrPhil:
It's hard to see what exactly the original quotation marks are/were, but it's likely that the quotation marks are Microsoft "Smart Quotes" and are invalid in many browsers. Depending on the browser, a Smart Quote might be interpreted as a control code, which could terminate the post at that point. It won't do any good to convert to UTF-8 (both database and page display and any non-English language files), but it won't hurt.

Since this is such a common problem (cutting and pasting text from MS Word), I've asked the SMF developers to put in code to scan for Smart Quotes characters and convert them to HTML entities. For the time being, all you can do is edit the posts to replace the Smart Quotes with standard ASCII characters or HTML entities. See my sig > projects > Change "Smart Quotes" for a complete list of Smart Quotes to look for.

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