I've noticed that a few unicode characters don't work on this site. I have found four so far, that when entered, either jump back to the 'Start new thread' screen, or throw me out of the site completely.
I've tested these elsewhere with no problems. The codes in question are:
Unicode: 0214 - Capital 'O' with umlaut
Unicode: 0224 - lower case 'a' with grave accent
Unicode: 0246 - lower case 'o' with umlaut
Unicode: 0241 - lower case 'n' with tilda (the wiggly worm on the top)
Can anyone suggest an alternative character code set?
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re: Why don't certain unicode characters work here?
You mean stuff like: Ö à ö â ñ Ñ Ü ü æ ą Šœ?
Wish I knew an easy way, but when I want to use them I have to copy them individually from my word processor.
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re: Why don't certain unicode characters work here?
Yes those ones. I have printed a Unicode list off and use this most of the time. Although the list is not comprehensive, most of the more common characters work fine. The four that I've tried and there may be others, just go loopy.
I can enter these onto sticky notes (Windows 7 Pro) with no problem. Microsoft Word works differently in that you 'insert character' from a table, which includes Unicode characters.
Perhaps I'll stick with the sticky, it might be less tricky.
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re: Why don't certain unicode characters work here?
If I were troubleshooting this, two possibilities occur to me for investigation. (I am not saying either of these are the issue, just suggesting lines of investigation).
#1) Font incompatibility. I note the font in your sticky notes is "unique".
#2) language setting differences. You are in the UK, so you are not likely to be set up with Windows and keyboard languages as "English (USA)", which I am.
Roy
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re: Why don't certain unicode characters work here?
Thanks for those suggestions. I am not aware of any way to set the sticky notes font but yes, it does look a little odd. I guess it's trying to replicate a handwriting style.
They are called Extended Hypertext Mark up Language (XHTML) Character Entity References.
They all begin with '&' and end with ';', and the stuff in between tell the browsers what to display. There are about 250+ of them on the above linked site.
As far as I know they will work anywhere on the web.
In my experiments with listings I did discover an anomaly in the text used in the title.
A few of these won't work. In addition the characters " and : will terminate the title
and any text after those characters disappear.
re: Why don't certain unicode characters work here?
Hi Ningpo;
I think it doesn't matter, because if you look and the window that you type a message into, it is a mono-spaced font similar to Courier. But after you hit "preview" or "submit message", it defaults to whatever the system default font is.
The auctions are maybe different, because they allow HTML in the body of the description. However making auctions is enough work as it is, and so I decline to play with something just because I can. I have used a decorative font to label some of my images, with my item numbers, but they are generated in a paint program and are bitmaps.
I use these characters extensively in the auction description body text to make it more readable. So just use this format (& + O + uml + ; = Ö), without the +s, and it should work correctly. I've been using these codes on a number of auction sites successfully for several years. A girl from eBid's forum, who lives in England was the person who told me about them.
Well gotta get back to sorting, several of my buyers are anxious for newer material.
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re: Why don't certain unicode characters work here?
Thanks, Ken. I had that page bookmarked once, then lost track of it. It is a very useful reference. For those of you who have difficulty in getting "links" to work, there is also "percent encoding" references on THIS PAGE (the most commonly used of which is the substitution of "%2c" for commas in URLs (more correctly URIs)).
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