sabbs Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Hi, First off thanks for hosting my stories, I know its a labour to keep all things running here so thanks a bunch. Now a minor problem I believe. Several of my stories like this one http://cartoon.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600091359 are showing coding, (i think) its a black diamond with a question mark in the middle of it. The formatting still is intact and the spaceing between the lines looks ok as well. The coding seems to appear in what seems spaces or (') perhaps something doesn't understand them. Anyway, any help would be appreciated. Again many thanks for all your support and help. Sincerely Mark W Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonGoddess Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 It's your browser settings. Change the text encoding to Western (ISO 8859-1) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabbs Posted January 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2013 I checked my browser firefox and the text encoding i listed as what you recommended. So not sure what to do now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonGoddess Posted January 23, 2013 Report Share Posted January 23, 2013 If that's not working, try Unicode. Btw, when I did that, then I get the oddball symbols instead of your punctuation. So be sure to double check that. I checked the db records, and there is nothing odd within the records themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabbs Posted January 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2013 Thanks for the help...I appreciate it. I tried to edit one of the stories and ran into a horrible mess. Its sort of fixed now...but not exactly the way i want but its readable. As I clicked the edit button it blew away any formatting it had and lumped the whole thing into one big lump. Sigh. Thankfully the story I picked has a short first chapter. I managed to go back and get the story back and separated into paragraphs again. Only to find that it doesn't like a double carrage return and now the whole thing is double spaced. Sigh again. It is readable now with the quotes now showing as quotes and spacing dots as dots. Thanks for the help, not sure what is the best way to upload a story now...since the editor on the page seems to mess with things so much. So any advice would help Thanks again Sincerely Sabbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonGoddess Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 If you're adding straight text as an upload WITHOUT html format tags, you will have wallotext issues. It's easy enough to c/p in to the text box and then use the rte to add formatting such as bold, center, italic and the like. If you use Word or Open/Libre Office, click "paste from word" and copy/paste the text from your document in to the box. The formatting is retained. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BronxWench Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I'd highly recommend the copy/paste from Word or Open Office/Libre Office myself. I've been using that method with great success, and without any wall-o-text issues. I've never had an issue with formatting (other than centering for some odd reason) being lost, and editing after publishing is equally simple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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