POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Message preview butchered? : Re: Message preview butchered? Server Time
9 Jun 2026 03:14:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Message preview butchered?  
From: Peter Markley
Date: 6 Jun 2026 09:30:00
Message: <web.6a241fa669259b1f595b1a7e7d5760c2@news.povray.org>
"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> The problem was usually when utf-8 character sets were trying to be displayed in
> the web-browser.
>
> 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

Oh my goodness, THANK YOU! That does the trick

I was using a mobile keyboard that by default inserts typographical marks
instead of ASCII, so literally anything I typed that had an apostrophe or
quotation mark would get stomped on.

It was very confusing and distressing and I'm not sure I could have figured it
out without your tip!


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