Does this work? ***** The ISO created an artificial lake to create farms in desert areas of Africa. But the lake has suddenly disappeared! All hell broke loose last night when the lake disappeared, you know! reports a local scientist. ***** Of course, the incident is immediately reported to Dr. Nambu, although how, I dont know, since the ISO scientists were killed. Did their ghosts rise and inform Nambu of the crisis? You never know, at the ISO&

Oh shoot... some characters disappeared, others had squiggly boxes and one got an ampersand. Shucks...

Out of curiosity, what were you trying? I'd be thrilled to have a way to "copy and paste" here without getting the "squigglies" -it would save me a lot of retyping! If I recall, didn't Cep say it had something to do with character coding on this site, and that he was going to change it to something different/better?

I tried emailing the text to myself, and then copying and pasting from the email. The email is plain text, so I was hoping that would be okay. I have also (in the past) tried copying into a text editor program, and then doing a search&replace on all of the characters that cause squiggles. But when I try to copy that inot a post, this site just refuses to let the post go through at all. The only thing I've been able to do is copy into the posting box, and then manually go in an replace all of the characters that cause problems. This isn't fun (especially with long episode reviews) but I've been unable to come up with any other alternative.

Yes Iborgia you are correct and I appear to have forgotten in my old age I'll sort it out now before I forget again!

Originally posted by Cep Yes Iborgia you are correct and I appear to have forgotten in my old age I'll sort it out now before I forget again!

Whee!

Go Cep! :clap2:

Well, I have changed the char set and now I just need to hunt down some rogue chars in the templates and we are all set.

Wow, that will be great Cep. Thank you it will make it much easier to cut and paste into a post. I don't suppose you feel like doing a few other changes while you are at it .... or add them to your long list? A problem I have noticed at least on the home page I use for this site, that fic threads posted or commented on do not appear in the active threads listing until I ask the system to "view new posts" (or todays posts.) Maybe I am the only one who is experiencing this problem but it means I sometime miss new stories being posted in the library or comments people are making on them. Is it possible to change this so these threads show up on the home page? (does what I am asking even make sense?)

Testing... **** "Lucky that building is in shambles, or we'd be barbecue!" Ryu notes.

Yay, it worked!!!!!!!

Ooh, really? Testing... Cooper's Chronicle, Grafton's Abridgement and A Chronicle at Large, and Stow's Summary all contain passages about the changes in bishops that occurred at the beginning of Mary's reign, when those appointed during Edward's reign were put out, and those who had been deprived of their bishoprics during his reign were restored. Cooper, however, also described a change at the popular level. In this time the people showed themselves so ready to receive their old religion that in many places of the realm, understanding the Queen's pleasure, before any law was made for the same, they erected again their alters and used the mass and Latin service in such sort as was wont to be in King Henry's time. A passage identical to this one also appears in Stow's 1565 Summary. Not surprisingly, this passage does not appear in Grafton's Abridgement or in his A Chronicle at Large. In fact it is virtually the only passage relating to religion in Cooper's Chronicle that is not carried over, in some fashion, into Grafton's works. Grafton, it would seem, had no use for any passage that so clearly described voluntary return to Catholicism in "many places of the realm."

Yes, it works!!! Italicized words, I see, lose their italicization, but all the punctuation marks come through correctly, with no squigglies! Thank you, Cep, so very, very much!!

Glad to see it now appears to be working. I guess that makes it a little easier to post the episode reviews you girls have been doing.

Yes, last night was the fastes episode review I have posted! No spending 2 hours going through and manually replacing all of the characters! Yay! This will make it much easier when I go on vacation too! Thank you, Cep!

thanks cep for fixing that problem....