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On http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/post!reply.jspa?messageID=13456431, I tried inserting some non-ASCII characters: bad news for us who occasionally need to venture outside the 26-letters of the English alphabet. TT didn't successfully interpret Unicode codes for writing letters outside the extended ISO 8859-1 character set (so no more Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Cyrillic etc.).

Even more surprising is that the TT doesn't seem to even support the extended ISO 8859-1 characters which allowed us to directly write the accented characters used in Western Europe. For example: Québec.

At least this is what happens with my browser. Can anyone else get things to work? I realise that it might just be me ...

PS. The old [i] [b] [quote] etc. system doesn't work either.

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Chinese worked on the old forum.

Let's try TT4:

大家好!

Nope!

Another fine improvement.

Thank you Lonely Planet.

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Just a test:

русский язык ქართული ენა 普通话

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It looks like TT is converting all non-ASCII characters to a UTF-8 encoding - which is good - and then interpreting the encoded text as individual ISO 8859 characters - which is bad. Or something like that.

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Let's hope they're still working on it.

(What's also irritating, I see now, is that when you click "reply" it brings you to a new page where you can only see the OP, and none of the other posts.)

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hi shilgia, this isn't going to be much consolation, but on the right of every message, you can click on the reply icon and then you will see that message (and that message only) when you reply. So you can choose which ONE message you see when replying ...

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Testing that feature. Yes, that works. Still, it's very impractical. Also, the posts are not numbered.

(I'm trying to be positive about this new layout, but it's hard.)

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Türkçe yok mu?

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aaaaah. What's worse, it looked fine when I previewed it!

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Let's see: José will be here mañana. He decided to spell his name with a different accent: Josè or maybe Jôse

АДЉӬѬԆ

αήξόὼ

㆟㆜㆓㆕㆗

ฬฎฑฝณ

I found this out:

For Bold, bracket the word with asterisks: asteriskBOLDasterisk give you BOLD
For italics, bracket with a plus sign: plusItalicsplus ITALICS
For Underline, it's an underscore: underscoreUNDERLINEunderscore UNDERLINE

Edited to correct typos and to note that none of the non-roman characters worked. Poor Jose.


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