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reddog801:
Hi all,

So I've encountered this problem and don't know how to correct it. I have a political forum (exposingamerica.info/forum1). When I copy a story and post it and then preview it it shows. When I click on the post button and then view it nothing is there. Sometimes is one word, or sometimes it's a complete sentence but never the full story.

I am posting a subject, and my forums are set up to allow sufficient characters. I'm using Simple Machines 2.0.2 and Simple Portal 2.3.5. Does not matter what the story is it never fully posts. Any help would be appreciated!


Thanks


Eric

emanuele:
Hello reddog801 and welcome to sm.org!

Sorry for any kind of non-polite answer, but today I'm pretty pissed off.

How are you pasting the story?
Are you using some Microsoft crappy software to write it?
If so: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=481444.0
And there are several other topics about the argument.

MrPhil:
Sounds like you're a victim of MS Smart Quotes. They are being interpreted as control characters by your browser. If you insist on composing in Word or Outlook and cut-and-pasting to SMF, you'll have this problem. Not guaranteed to work, but converting to UTF-8 will let some browsers translate the Smart Quotes to proper UTF-8 characters upon input. Otherwise, you need to edit the characters (especially single and double quotes) to standard ASCII before posting.

reddog801:
To copy and paste, I'm just going to a website, choosing the text by highlighting it and then right clicking and choosing copy. Then going to my forum, to my new topic and posting the info. Like I said, it pastes just fine and even when I click on "preview" it shows it correctly. However, after pressing "post" it does not post all of it. It most of the time will post one word or other times it will show like an entire line but never the full story.

It's just a simple copy and past. I even copied the text(story/article) into microsoft word and then copied it again from there into my topic on my simple machines forum and everything looked good until I hit the post button.

I'm stumped on this one. I'm the admin and everything is set for that so I should not have any restrictions although I did change the number of characters allowed to like 100,000,000 or something like that....

reddog801:
I'm attaching a post for and example. As you can see I always copy and paste the link to the story at the top. Then I return down a couple of lines and then I go to the story and I highlight all of the story and then hit copy. Then back to the forum and paste the story below the link.

This allows my readers to read the content of the link on my site without having to leave but to verify a story the link is at the top. As you can see in the attachment the entire pasted content did not make it......

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