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Accented characters ...

Feb 20, 2011 6:52AM PST

I gather that the various kludges/workarounds that the engineers have produced to date never actually solved some of the text handling problems. I TRIED to make a post that included some text requiring accented characters. No joy. Later I discovered that it is possible to use HTML entity codes to accomplish this, but that's a rather obnoxious workaround, especially since the results apparently do not display accurately in Preview.

I know, accented characters and other odd text are not frequently encountered in an English language forum, but don't forget that English DOES have words that SHOULD have accents. Anybody care to have a debate vis-a-vis the relationship between US policy and current world events? That's definitely within the scope of at least one CNET forum ... but I can't spell vis-à-vis properly if I can't use accented characters!

Also, the fact that Preview does NOT reliably display the message as it will actually appear tells me that the kludges to date must have been fairly extensive and that message which LOOK right in Preview will not necessarily be right after then are posted. That means Preview is not necessarily terribly useful. That came up previously regarding messages that were caught in filters that OBVIOUSLY were not applied until after Preview.

Is there any hope for getting all of this encoding and display stuff right?

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Temporary work around to preview
Feb 23, 2011 6:21AM PST

You've probably thought of it and it requires extra time but the Test forum might be of assistance here.

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Sure, I know about that ...
Feb 23, 2011 10:15AM PST

Of course I don't normally post EVERY message in Test.

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(NT) Not the whole message but just components of it.
Feb 23, 2011 7:36PM PST