Topic: Pinning a post for the Chinese forum

[Matthew]

I discovered yesterday that if you try to edit a post containing Chinese characters, they get converted into unreadable code points. 

For future reference, this page can undo the damage provided you remove all ASCII characters: https://onlineutf8tools.com/convert-code-points-to-utf8

It would be a waste of time trying to fix this given how little traffic the Chinese forum gets, but if I create a warning post, would a mod be willing to pin it to the top of that forum?

[prissi]

I am somehow surprise because I can enter Japanese on a western windows and the input get converted to UTF8. Same for editing my posts. Maybe this is tied to a specific setting/environment.
edit: (with button) I can enter Kanji 漢字

[Matthew]

EN: That's interesting. Let's test editing this post.
I changed it.

ZH: %u5F88%u6709%u610F%u601D%u3002%u5B9E%u9A8C%u7F16%u8F91%u672C%u5E16%u5B50%u5427%u3002
%u6539%u53D8%u4E86%u3002

[Matthew]

EN: That post was on Linux. What's editing on Windows like?
Test: Simutrans is great.

ZH: %u4E0A%u9762%u7684%u5E16%u5B50%u4F7F%u7528Linux%u3002%u5728Windows%u7F16%u8F91%u600E%u4E48%u6837%uFF1F
%u5B9E%u9A8C%uFF1ASimutrans%u592A%u68D2%u4E86%u3002

[Matthew]

EN: Does Edge improve the situation?
Test: The forum is poorly.

ZH: %u4F7F%u7528Edge%u7684%u8BDD%uFF0C%u60C5%u51B5%u8FDB%u6B65%u6CA1%u6709%uFF1F
%u5B9E%u9A8C%uFF1A%u8BBA%u533A%u75C5%u4E86%u3002

EN: So you can see that I get the same results on Firefox in Linux (iBus Intelligent Pinyin) and both Firefox and Edge on Windows 10 (Microsoft IME). The initial post is OK, the text shows up in the Modify box, but when I hit save it is converted into code points.

Prissi, may I ask how you are entering Japanese?

[Isaac Eiland-Hall]

A while back, I tried to input the "look of disapproval" which uses Kannada characters, which had the same results - although others were able to enter them.

I'm not smart enough on the topic of encoding to know why this is, frankly.

[An_dz]

It could have some link with using the WYSIWYG editor versus the plain text version.

[Freahk]

There is a WYSIWYG editor?

[Isaac Eiland-Hall]

There is a WYSIWYG editor?

When you "Reply" (using the button, not the quick reply at the bottom), look for and click to toggle text/visual editing.

( https://ieh.im/i/200802-015255.png )

[Matthew]

When you "Reply" (using the button, not the quick reply at the bottom), look for and click to toggle text/visual editing.

( https://ieh.im/i/200802-015255.png )

EN: TIL! Let's give this a test then. (Firefox, Linux, iBus Intelligent Pinyin)
Can we modify this way?

ZH: %u4ECA%u5929%u6211%u5B66%u5230%uFF01%u54B1%u4EEC%u8BD5%u4E00%u8BD5%u5427%u3002
%u54B1%u4EEC%u80FD%u4E0D%u80FD%u8FD9%u6837%u7F16%u8F91 %uFF1F

[Matthew]

EN: Maybe we are required to use the top Modify button?Another test.

ZH: 说不定必须使用上面的编辑按钮吧？在来一个实验。

Success!!!  The answer is: to preserve Chinese characters, you must use the Modify button at the top of the post (the one that loads a new page), not the one at the bottom of the post (that allows you to edit in-place). 

[prissi]

I did not even know that there is another button. But using this button, I cannot edit anything. I just says"Text is empty", whenver there is a character above 127. Even German Umlaute do not work with this button.