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[SOLVED] Can't post to the forum

Postby yanes » Fri Oct 14, 2016 7:30 pm

Hi every body ,

I was trying to post a new thread to the "Board index ‹ FlightGear ‹ Development ‹ Aircraft ‹ Systems" at least 5 times
with no luck !
this may be because of quote or another thing, since error has persisted when I quoted the text of the error.

This is my Original post :

Edit: May be I should tell that the preview works fine the issue occurs when hitting SUBMIT .
Last edited by yanes on Fri Oct 14, 2016 11:03 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Can't post to the forum

Postby Gijs » Fri Oct 14, 2016 7:38 pm

Hi Yanes,

Could you please post the exact error message (if it doesn't allow you to copy it, type it yourself)? It could be that there's a non-standard character in your text that's not supported by our database. To see if that's the case, could you please upload your text to a service like Pastebin?

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Re: Can't post to the forum

Postby yanes » Fri Oct 14, 2016 7:41 pm

I Edited the first post .thanks for repliying
you can just try to post it . It can generates the preview but not posting it ,
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Re: Can't post to the forum

Postby wkitty42 » Fri Oct 14, 2016 9:34 pm

the actual error, dug out from the mass of text is

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Incorrect string value: '\xE2\x88\x92tan...' for column 'post_text' at row 1 [1366]


it is a unicode minus sign... how to fix it? i don't know... maybe try editing the post and using a normal ASCII minus sign instead?? i suspect it is in this part of the code...

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<!-- tank[1] collector tank connected to the engine fuel pump,
 tank[0], tank[2],tank[3] and tank[4] feeds the collector through valves.
Negative Gs (<-0.5g) cuts the supply to the collector tanks -->


because that's the first occurrence i see of a dash/minus followed by the letters "tan" but it could be in one of the following comments concerning tanks, too...
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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Re: Can't post to the forum

Postby yanes » Fri Oct 14, 2016 10:19 pm

Ok , Solved it
The problem was in the dashes (The strange long ones ), it were copied directly from a russian old document ,
posted the thread successfully, after some changes trials .
I still need some help but in the posted thread :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
congrats wkitty42 your shot was well guided , target hit :wink: :wink:
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Re: Can't post to the forum

Postby wkitty42 » Fri Oct 14, 2016 10:27 pm

thank you, sir, and you are very welcome, too... once i saw the error message, it was fairly easy to track down to being UTF-8 related ;)
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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Re: Can't post to the forum

Postby yanes » Fri Oct 14, 2016 11:03 pm

I knew its about encoding ,In the far past I played with these errors in some sites(especialy with Wordpress scripts ) , (May God forgive me :lol: :lol: )
you know the quotes have a magical effects on some sql servers .So my taughts went directly there :shock:
I dont know why the solved button doesnt exist , so I changed the title .
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Re: [SOLVED] Can't post to the forum

Postby wkitty42 » Sat Oct 15, 2016 7:28 pm

:thumbs up:
"You get more air close to the ground," said Angalo. "I read that in a book. You get lots of air low down, and not much when you go up."
"Why not?" said Gurder.
"Dunno. It's frightened of heights, I guess."
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