Rejected: special characters? What special characters?

[Emilymcplugger]

Anyone else been rejected due to the issue of special characters?

I’ve looked through and can see no such issue but wonder if there’s something I’m missing that someone else might be able to offer some tips on. Appreciate it, y’all.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Anyone else been rejected due to the issue of special characters?

I’ve looked through and can see no such issue but wonder if there’s something I’m missing that someone else might be able to offer some tips on. Appreciate it, y’all.

I had stories rejected for this and formatting. Once I started pasting into the text box, no problem. Others say they can upload LibreOffice files, but never worked for me.

 

[Bramblethorn]

You could try pasting it into https://www.soscisurvey.de/tools/view-chars.php and see if anything shows up.

 

[alohadave]

Anyone else been rejected due to the issue of special characters?

I’ve looked through and can see no such issue but wonder if there’s something I’m missing that someone else might be able to offer some tips on. Appreciate it, y’all.

Do you use Word files with Track Changes enabled?

 

[TheLobster]

If you are copy-pasting into the submission box, write in an editor that deals with plain text rather than something like Word.

 

[onehitwanda]

Unicode is the devil.

 

[StillStunned]

Unicode is the devil.

The Bible suddenly makes so much more sense.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

You could try pasting it into https://www.soscisurvey.de/tools/view-chars.php and see if anything shows up.

Thank you VERY much for this.

I had a quick scan and nothing showed up.

Even in Preview when I submit nowt shows up.

 

[AG31]

Ha! I Watched this thread because I couldn't imagine what kind of people would qualify as "special characters." Only today, after a couple of replies, did it dawn on me that "special characters" meant things like @%, etc. Duh.

 

[AndersonsBiographer]

Ha! I Watched this thread because I couldn't imagine what kind of people would qualify as "special characters." Only today, after a couple of replies, did it dawn on me that "special characters" meant things like @%, etc. Duh.

I don't even think it's that. I think's it's something more like , or the website thinking that you had put something like in the text. Anything ASCII should be fine, I think.

 

[MrPixel]

Ha! I Watched this thread because I couldn't imagine what kind of people would qualify as "special characters." Only today, after a couple of replies, did it dawn on me that "special characters" meant things like @%, etc. Duh.

I was resisting the urge to feign a protest, "But all of my characters are special to me!" but I held my tongue waiting for someone else to "go there".

@Emilymcplugger , it would help us help you if we knew what word processing program you were using and the file format you were submitting in.

 

[RejectReality]

If you're uploading a file, it's probably artifacts from whatever program you're writing in. Cut-n-paste should remove any of that, or you can save as a plain .txt file.

If you're using text formatting, and want to maintain it, you'll need to manually insert the tags such as <i>italic</i> if you're going to go that way. Or perhaps save to .rtf format, because that shouldn't maintain much in the way of behind-the-scenes data.

 

[intim8]

Due to historical incidents that nobody wants repeated, Literotica has banned the following special characters:

A 26 year old Hispanic man from the Bronx with a pimple midway down his right butt cheek.
A 42 year old suburban mother of three with one innie nipple, married to a Luxembourgian ski instructor.
An 18 year old male with a 13 inch penis that he's named "Wilfred".

Please check your submission carefully for any appearance of these characters and remove them before completing your submission.

 

[Gamblnluck]

Ha! I Watched this thread because I couldn't imagine what kind of people would qualify as "special characters." Only today, after a couple of replies, did it dawn on me that "special characters" meant things like @%, etc. Duh.

Me too. At first I wondered if he had a character that was mentally challenged or something.

 

[lovecraft68]

Me too. At first I wondered if he had a character that was mentally challenged or something.

This post is funnier than you think.

 

[Ren_eh]

Due to historical incidents that nobody wants repeated, Literotica has banned the following special characters:

A 26 year old Hispanic man from the Bronx with a pimple midway down his right butt cheek.
A 42 year old suburban mother of three with one innie nipple, married to a Luxembourgian ski instructor.
An 18 year old male with a 13 inch penis that he's named "Wilfred".

Please check your submission carefully for any appearance of these characters and remove them before completing your submission.

I thought I might be in trouble . . . but my 18 year old male's 13 inch penis is named "Wh-iii-llll-buh-rrrr".

 

[Gamblnluck]

This post is funnier than you think.

Wasn't particularly trying to be funny. I read the thread because of that impression. One of my long series features a man on the 'spectrum' and there was no problem.

 

[lovecraft68]

Wasn't particularly trying to be funny. I read the thread because of that impression. One of my long series features a man on the 'spectrum' and there was no problem.

I know, that's not the funny part.

 

[ChloeTzang]

If you use Word, you can inadvertently end up with special characters - just display everything and skim thru -

 

[Britva415]

Ha! I Watched this thread because I couldn't imagine what kind of people would qualify as "special characters." Only today, after a couple of replies, did it dawn on me that "special characters" meant things like @%, etc. Duh.

#shortbus tag

 

[AG31]

#shortbus tag

I don't get this. I know "short bus" can be used to refer to special ed kids who get picked up to go to a special school in a small bus. So what is your post meant to convey?

 

[Britva415]

I don't get this. I know "short bus" can be used to refer to special ed kids who get picked up to go to a special school in a small bus. So what is your post meant to convey?

So you know about special people

And you know we write about characters

there are only two dots to connect, here

 

[AG31]

So you know about special people

And you know we write about characters

there are only two dots to connect, here

Sorry. Still bewildered. The thread is about ascii characters in text. I misunderstood it. What does it have to do with special ed kids?

 

[Britva415]

Sorry. Still bewildered. The thread is about ascii characters in text. I misunderstood it. What does it have to do with special ed kids?

I'm just the latest among several people pointing out that the topic title could be misconstrued, that's all.

Hell, you, yourself, actually did misconstrue it, only you didn't make it as far as figuring out which kind of people "special characters" might refer to or why a story might be rejected over that.

You're welcome?

 

[Ren_eh]

Now I'm confused. What does having an ASC-2 have to do with Special Ed?