POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Message preview butchered? : Re: Message preview butchered? Server Time
9 Jun 2026 03:16:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Message preview butchered?  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 6 Jun 2026 06:25:00
Message: <web.6a23f45069259b1fd1d09a9825979125@news.povray.org>
"jr" <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> hi,
>
> "Peter Markley" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > "Peter Markley" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > > The preview button erases huge portions of whatever I type.

> there used to be problems with accented letters and such, but I have not yet
> lost "portions of whatever I type".

The problem was usually when utf-8 character sets were trying to be displayed in
the web-browser.

I myself have experienced this issue, however, it's unclear whether the messages
on the server that appear to have missing portions are in fact intact when
viewed with a newsreader such as Thunderbird.

Someone using Thunderbird or Chris Cason would have to investigate and determine
what the exact problem is.


Just curious what happens if you copy your message, paste into a plain text
editor to scrub UTF-8 and substitute with plain ASCII, and then copy THAT text
and paste back into the we message editor and then preview.

- BE


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