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Andurant Proudfoot
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Join date: 11 Jul 2004
Posts: 27
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07-06-2005 19:10
I'm in the process of uploading, via cut/paste from windows notepad, fairly large chunks of text into notecards for a project I'm working on.
By large, I mean the original file size is about 20,000 bytes: a notecard can easily hold that.
The first few went well, no big deal. But on my third card and random others afterwards, the "paste" in SL notecard editor changes all my punctuation characters to question marks.
This is a huge job to repair from within second life.
Each block is large, but chopping up into smaller, multiple pastes of smaller text doesn't appear to resolve the problem. Shrinking the amount of text on a card, even significantly, doesn't seem to stop it, either.
Anyone else had this problem? What am I doing wrong? Know any work-arounds for this?
Any help appreciated.
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Robin Sojourner
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Join date: 16 Sep 2004
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07-07-2005 13:09
Hi!
If I understand correctly, I've had that happen when using "curly quotes" on a Mac. All the quotes were turned into question marks.
The only solution I found was to use the inch and foot marks (" and ') in place of curly quotes.
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Andurant Proudfoot
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Join date: 11 Jul 2004
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07-08-2005 23:09
That was it, Robin: Thanks!
The original docs were in microsoft word on my XP home machine. I used the 'save as' to translate them into text copies of the original, then chopped/cut/pasted them into SL notecards.
The four characters, left quote, right quote, apostrophe, and exclamation, all translated into high ascii versions of those characters. During the import, SL translated those into question marks.
The fix was simple: In notepad, I can find those characters, and do a global search/replace to the originals, then reimport them into the notecards.
Owe you one.. <smiles>
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