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  • Re: Test 3

    From Bob Casanova@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 16 10:21:48 2024
    On Thu, 16 May 2024 17:32:04 +0100, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by Martin Harran
    <[email protected]>:

    Not a problem with NIN after all, it was a rogue character in subject
    - an MS hyphen. Care needs to be taken when copying and pasting from
    Word to Agent. Text body doesn't seem to be a problem, just the
    subject line. Agent is very fussy in that regard!

    Just FYI, it's not only copy/paste from Word that can cause
    problems. I discovered that sometimes I need to re-type the
    entire Subject: field in order to get a post through. And
    since this has always been a reply in an existing thread
    it's not due to copy/paste in the Subject: field. Doesn't
    happen often, but it *has* happened half-a-dozen times in
    the past 6 months or so. I suspect a non-ASCII "invisible"
    character causes the problem, but since I have a workaround
    I'm not interested in spending time digging into it.

    --

    Bob C.

    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

    - Isaac Asimov

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  • From J. J. Lodder@21:1/5 to Martin Harran on Thu May 16 23:25:33 2024
    Martin Harran <[email protected]> wrote:

    Not a problem with NIN after all, it was a rogue character in subject
    - an MS hyphen. Care needs to be taken when copying and pasting from
    Word to Agent. Text body doesn't seem to be a problem, just the
    subject line. Agent is very fussy in that regard!

    All Newsgroup headers should be in god's own ASCII,
    and nothing but ASCII, no matter what, always,

    Jan

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  • From Bob Casanova@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 16 21:43:29 2024
    On Thu, 16 May 2024 18:38:00 +0100, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by Martin Harran
    <[email protected]>:

    On Thu, 16 May 2024 10:21:48 -0700, Bob Casanova <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Thu, 16 May 2024 17:32:04 +0100, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by Martin Harran
    <[email protected]>:

    Not a problem with NIN after all, it was a rogue character in subject
    - an MS hyphen. Care needs to be taken when copying and pasting from
    Word to Agent. Text body doesn't seem to be a problem, just the
    subject line. Agent is very fussy in that regard!

    Just FYI, it's not only copy/paste from Word that can cause
    problems. I discovered that sometimes I need to re-type the
    entire Subject: field in order to get a post through. And
    since this has always been a reply in an existing thread
    it's not due to copy/paste in the Subject: field. Doesn't
    happen often, but it *has* happened half-a-dozen times in
    the past 6 months or so. I suspect a non-ASCII "invisible"
    character causes the problem, but since I have a workaround
    I'm not interested in spending time digging into it.



    Are you using Forte Agent?

    Yep; used it since sometime in the '90s, IIRC. This is the
    only issue I've encountered.

    I am and have found it *very* fussy and
    even setting it to UTF-8 doessn't solve the problem. A bit like that
    issue of yours, I have found a couple of times when doing a Global
    Search using an existing subject line, it also comes up with an error.
    I suspect that this is the case where the poster has posted using
    something other than Agent which accepts the character but Agent then
    rejects it in a search. At least when searching, it does throw an
    error rather than just silently refusing to process the post as it
    does when posting.

    Haven't seen that, but I don't recall ever using the global
    search feature.

    Showing my age now but I still miss Outlook Express which always met
    my posting needs without a problem and, IMO, was better than Agent in
    some aspects.
    --

    Bob C.

    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

    - Isaac Asimov

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  • From Bob Casanova@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 16 21:44:11 2024
    On Thu, 16 May 2024 23:25:33 +0200, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by [email protected] (J. J.
    Lodder):

    Martin Harran <[email protected]> wrote:

    Not a problem with NIN after all, it was a rogue character in subject
    - an MS hyphen. Care needs to be taken when copying and pasting from
    Word to Agent. Text body doesn't seem to be a problem, just the
    subject line. Agent is very fussy in that regard!

    All Newsgroup headers should be in god's own ASCII,
    and nothing but ASCII, no matter what, always,

    Yep.

    --

    Bob C.

    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

    - Isaac Asimov

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