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Old 03-16-2017 , 18:57   What the heck is with this?
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When trying to edit a post or a signature with specific characters in it, the edit box comes up completely empty. For example, if I toss a lenny face into my signature, I have to save the raw BBcode in a text file because if I go to edit it later, the edit box comes up empty because of the lenny face.

I just noticed this happening again here on this post of mine. I think the trigger there is the little trademark symbol in the quote box of Sarge's post.

Why the hell does it do that? It's annoying. I wish it wouldn't do that. I've lost entire threads that I had to rewrite because of this issue in the past.

I don't know if this is a browser issue or a forums issue, but either way, I'm running Firefox (latest version, I always keep it updated), and it's been going on for several years now so I'm assuming it's a forum software issue.

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Old 03-16-2017 , 19:54   Re: What the heck is with this?
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It's not the symbol nor the browser. The entire text box is extremely f***ed up. This has happened to me many times, and it's the least thing that annoys me. Using [pawn] tag will break the tags when trying to edit the post, so it's basically uneditable. Blank spaces and entire blank lines are constantly added when trying to edit a post. And many more...
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Old 03-16-2017 , 23:04   Re: What the heck is with this?
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Old 03-16-2017 , 23:05   Re: What the heck is with this?
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Yep. Blank text box (I did a test with the above post where I inserted a lenny face, saved the changes, then tried to edit that post, and it blanked out on me as I predicted)

Still, pain in the ass.

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Old 03-17-2017 , 11:11   Re: What the heck is with this?
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if I toss a lenny face into my signature, I have to save the raw BBcode in a text file because if I go to edit it later, the edit box comes up empty because of the lenny face.
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Old 03-17-2017 , 20:00   Re: What the heck is with this?
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Your browser is getting confused about the content type of the page, unfortunately for legacy reasons we don't serve UTF-8 content. Only Firefox is affected, its attempt at sniffing the content type overrides what is sent by the server.
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Old 03-17-2017 , 21:42   Re: What the heck is with this?
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Your browser is getting confused about the content type of the page, unfortunately for legacy reasons we don't serve UTF-8 content. Only Firefox is affected, its attempt at sniffing the content type overrides what is sent by the server.
Damn me and my Firefox.
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