Help! All my older stories are garbled!

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[Liar]

Seen it too.

"é" comes out as "Ä@" or something like that.

 

[blackhaus7]

No, not from my own writing, you smart-asses.

No, on my BIO page - this is what has happened to many of my works!


You’re in her clutching ass up to your ‘nads and her sighs speak only of lust. All systems are go; it’s time to get things moving.

Begin a slow in and out stroke pattern, stopping for additional lubrication if necessary. Continue at a leisurely tempo and soon you’ll be able to easily slide inside her loosening orifice. Follow your partner’s lead. When she gasps and moans and pushes herself back against your body, smile and increase your thrusting speed and strength.



Anyone know what the hell this is?

Also many of my stories have been magically chopped in half.

Did I miss the memo?

Monogamy, kids, stuff like that spilled into Lit and there you are. (1)

What. That's now how you wrote them? (2)

Sorry, sarahh. I had to. Sounds like a Laurel and Manu issue to me.

 

[LeBroz]

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I had helped someone else with a similar issue when they were submitting and all those strange characters would appear, usually seen instead of punctuation marks or non-standard characters. This might have something to do with the fact that Lit is in the process of upgrading and the new system might be less forgiving of older text that isn't pure text files. And I do mean pure; not cut and paste from, say, Word into Wordpad or Notepad. Such cut and paste files would probably still contain the hidden code which later shows up all screwy.

My advice is to send Manu a PM and see what he suggests.

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[Roxanne Appleby]

I had something happen like that once, I think I caught it in preview. I'm no geek, but I suspect some Word codes got imported and screwed things up. So now I first paste the entire text into "Notepad," which definitively strips out any funky codes. From there it goes into the Lit submission screen.

Good luck.

 

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[Darkniciad]

The system is now processing many special characters differently. EM dashes now come out as a double hyphen. That's the one I've noticed on my stories so far, but I'm sure I have a couple of other things that will need fixed.

The changes appear to be completely retroactive, so you may need to go through your whole list and put in edits, if you have any sort of special characters in there.

 

[starrkers]

It's definitely something in the site's coding. It's even cropping up on the index page

First Time - Memories & stories of people's first times. (2111)

eta: very interesting: that quote had stuff screwed up in the original, but it doesn't show inside the quote thing It was people& # 39 ;s (without the spaces)

 

[Darkniciad]

It's definitely something in the site's coding. It's even cropping up on the index page



eta: very interesting: that quote had stuff screwed up in the original, but it doesn't show inside the quote thing It was people& # 39 ;s (without the spaces)

The forum uses different processors than the website. I would imagine the whole of the story side of the website is original coding, while the forum is a ( likely modded ) set of "standard" code, and most of the modern forum software accounts for all sorts of special characters.

It could very well be an accidental omission during the upgrades. It's easy enough, when you're revamping a massive amount of code, to forget a little subroutine - such as the one to process special characters.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Odd. That's the same screwed up garbble I get from my editor

 

[cantdog]

Jesus I hate it when they swap for a new code system. It's not easy figuring out what works in the first instance. The changes amount to a global search-and-replace of mere code symbols. Why the hell is it our responsibility to go fix coding that was working swell last week?

If the site pulls the rug out, the site should do the grunt search-and-replace to repair the damage they've created.

 

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[drksideofthemoon]

Did I miss the memo?

Of course you missed the memo, it was attached to the bottom half of the story that dissapeared...

How did you submit those stories? Did you just cut and paste, or did you upload a MS-Word File?

 

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[rgraham666]

I just checked my oldest. They're OK.

Sorry sarahh. *HUGS*

 

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[rgraham666]

It's ok -

It's time I resubmitted edited versions, anyway.

You need any help researching, I mean editing, just ask.

 

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[Zeb_Carter]

Probably has something to do with the Charset, it's now UTF-8. When you submitted your stories it was probably an ISO charset. Resubmitt you stories again and they should be curred.

 

[Edward Teach]

No problems here either, Sarah, and a couple of mine go back to July, '03.

I think I've always submitted in plain text format with any special characters (italics, etc.) in HTML if that helps any.

Ed

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I blame the gays and the muslims.......and Sher's polls.

 

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[Guest]

I have a couple of author's who send me thier work to edit and paste it into and email, which is easier for me to do. Sometimes, if they are on Yahoo, it comes to me looking like that, I'm on AOL.