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Curious symbol in my URL link, but not in my html code.

 
 
Olulabelle
10:07 / 06.11.03
If I am making a long post I write it out in an email first, (because I can't be bothered to open Word) rather than write the post online and risk losing it. I turn my email settings to text, and then type in my post, including the html for links. When I copy and paste the text into the message box on the board, sometimes my links don't work in preview. When I roll over them I can see that at the beginning and the end of the URL there is a little 'i' but with a ^ hat over it instead of a dot but this symbol doesn't appear in my code. I can't even find the symbol on my keyboard either. If I delete the html code at the beginning and the end of the link and retype it in online, the links then work and the funny i-hat symbol goes away.

It's a bit dull if I have lots of links because I have to go through them all deleting and retyping the code.

Is this a problem with the board, or me, or what?
 
 
Linus Dunce
11:02 / 06.11.03
Mmm. On a PC? Short answer -- use Notepad instead of e-mail to compose your post. Quick way to run Notepad -- Windows key + R, then type Notepad (thereafter you probably won't have to type the whole word, it will autocomplete).

Long answer, well, not long, just boring -- it sounds like your e-mail text editor is changinging the quotes around the URL to "smart quotes" which often cause problems like this. And they look crap. But people seem to like them, I guess because they are high falutin'. (If you're using Outlook, your e-mail text editor is probably in fact Word, though it disguises itself in this instance as part of Outlook.)

If you're on a Mac, try SimpleText instead of Notepad, though you may have to switch off smart quotes in your preferences, I can't remember.
 
  
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