Special characters in trades still not always working

[Aie]

This thread from a few days ago was locked as the problem was marked solved, but I got the "Inappropriate Message – The provided message contains invalid characters." error just now.  I did not have this problem before, and I could post my trade just fine after I removed the | character which I usually use to separate Haves and Wants, so apparently it is not a problem with : and ,.

//ETA: Apparently 4th time's the charm, and I managed to post the trade without any changes to the message after a few tries, so feel free to lock this topic as well.

//ETA: Nevermind, I have this problem every time I try to post a trade with a vertical bar |.

Edited August 8, 2020 by Aie

[Solaries]

I’m having problems using quotation marks “ ” and apostrophes ‘. I’ve tried several times and still get the error message. I used to be able to put those characters in before, so I’m not sure what’s going on. I also see other trades with those special characters—not sure if it’s just on my end.

[Ruby Eyes]

8 hours ago, Solaries said:

quotation marks “ ”

This looks like your device is changing the standard quotation marks for so-called "smart" punctuation quotes. If I recall correctly, you'd need to switch that off in your device's keyboard settings, if you're on mobile. (Never had that happen to me - using a proper computer - so I can't tell you where to switch it off on those)

Edited August 4, 2020 by Ruby Eyes

[Fuzzbucket]

It always happens if you copy/paste from a word processor...

[Solaries]

8 hours ago, Ruby Eyes said:

This looks like your device is changing the standard quotation marks for so-called "smart" punctuation quotes. If I recall correctly, you'd need to switch that off in your device's keyboard settings, if you're on mobile. (Never had that happen to me - using a proper computer - so I can't tell you where to switch it off on those)

 

That makes sense. I mostly use my tablet and it has the ‘smart’ quotes built in, I think. But I’ll check into it. Hopefully it will solve the problem.

 

8 hours ago, Fuzzbucket said:

It always happens if you copy/paste from a word processor...

 

I type in directly to the hub and don’t copy/paste anything because my ‘wants’ vary, lol.

 

Thank you both for your help!

[Aie]

This problem still persists for me. It seems that it's the vertical bar symbol | that triggers it.

[snoesiepoes]

I'm having the same problem.

I just copied my trade message, cancelled the trade and then wanted to put it up again. Got the invalid characters message.

I haven't copied from a different source and I'm always on the same device (wich didn't get updated since I did the exact same thing this morning).

I always work this way and I've never had this problem before.

[Ruby Eyes]

Check if you didn't accidentally copy anything from around your trade message, like invisible tabs or linebreaks?

[ADN6]

On mobile (the browser Safari on an iphone) I can't use the apostrophe in trade messages and get the message "Special characters are not allowed". I had to change "fool's mint" to "fool mint" before it worked, and I can replicate the issue by adding or removing an apostrophe to any trade message. However, I can use the apostrophe on the computer. 

[Ruby Eyes]

9 hours ago, ADN6 said:

On mobile (the browser Safari on an iphone) I can't use the apostrophe

That's because your phone is trying to outsmart you, literally. It turns your apostrophe into something else using so-called "smart punctuation". I believe you can switch that off in your device's keyboard settings.

[ADN6]

7 hours ago, Ruby Eyes said:

That's because your phone is trying to outsmart you, literally. It turns your apostrophe into something else using so-called "smart punctuation". I believe you can switch that off in your device's keyboard settings.

That did the trick, thank you!

[snoesiepoes]

On 8/20/2020 at 10:40 PM, Ruby Eyes said:

Check if you didn't accidentally copy anything from around your trade message, like invisible tabs or linebreaks?

No, I hadn't since I tried entering the exact same message and got the exact same result.

It's weird because I even tried starting over completely, and entering without any symbols and STILL got the error!

Very weird!

It works again now, even with the copy-pasted message. So it's something temporary (well for about 15min for me) so... I guess there won't be a fix possible since it's not a definite problem...