Copy/Paste gibberish

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rekees4300

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Can this problem be fixed? When doing a copy from a webpage then pasted into a TBN post, some special characters are converted into gibberish.

Here are some examples:

Original - Jim Martin, "Congress must take bi-partisan action
Pasted - Jim Martin, é*„*蟋穎gress must take bi-partisan

Original - Jim Martin, "As predicted
Pasted - Jim Martin, 鬩?s predicted

Original - "When a government program
Pasted - 陞サé*�*en a government program

Original - that it's already
Pasted - that it騾橸スエ already
 
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I have been wondering why some posts look like that. Certainly know nothing about it.
 
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You are copying and pasting enriched text.

There may be an easier way to get rid of the problem, but one way is to copy the text to Notepad or similar editor. Save the text and then copy and paste to TBN.

Steve
 
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Original - Jim Martin, "Congress must take bi-partisan action
Pasted - Jim Martin, é*„*蟋穎gress must take bi-partisan

Original - Jim Martin, "As predicted
Pasted - Jim Martin, 鬩?s predicted


Does Jim Martin speak with a strange accent?

:)

Bruce
 
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You are copying and pasting enriched text.

There may be an easier way to get rid of the problem, but one way is to copy the text to Notepad or similar editor. Save the text and then copy and paste to TBN.

Steve

Yup! Thats it.:thumbsup:
 
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You are copying and pasting enriched text.
There may be an easier way to get rid of the problem, but one way is to copy the text to Notepad or similar editor. Save the text and then copy and paste to TBN.
Steve
Specifically, TBN doesn't handle angled single/double quotes and those all must be replaced with straight single or double quotes.

Aaron Z
 
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You are copying and pasting enriched text.

There may be an easier way to get rid of the problem, but one way is to copy the text to Notepad or similar editor. Save the text and then copy and paste to TBN.

Steve
Yup, Steve got it right. It's because you are copying embedded HTML into the text editor box and that freaks out the wysiwyg editor. Copy and paste it into notepad (or if you are on a Mac, use textedit) and than copy it out and then into TBN, and it will work fine (notepad will strip the HTML out of it).
 
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You are copying and pasting enriched text.

There may be an easier way to get rid of the problem, but one way is to copy the text to Notepad or similar editor. Save the text and then copy and paste to TBN.

Steve

No joy, got same result using Notepad. :confused:
 
 
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