TT GOES LATIN!

I am trying to produce a quote manually
let's see if this works

OK, to manually quote something, you have to put this ">" in front of each line. Yuk. What a pain.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the >proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are >met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave >their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

Let's see if I can paste that text, highlight it & hit "quote"

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Nope, doesn't work.

How can it be that some non-Latin script shows up fine in older threads? For example in the Turkish question, a few threads down.

Let's see if it stays good when copied:
Sülale damganıza bakınız
Edit: nope.

Ünlü bir Şarkıcıyım

I am editing to add an attempt to just paste the letters in, since the codes only partially worked: Ünlü bir Şarkıcıyım

Edited by: DianaHaddad

"How can it be that some non-Latin script shows up fine in older threads? For example in the Turkish question, a few threads down."

The data is being stored and displayed correctly so all the old posts are cool.

The problem is almost certainly that when we click on the post button, the new TT converts the data improperly (into UTF-8 encoding by the looks of things). But, this shouldn't be happening since it isn't what the back-end of the TT is expecting, so all our lovely accented letters all get stored as unencoded data - and then displayed in the same way.

I'm surprised all their testing didn't uncover something as obviously problematic as this. Even some of the posts by the moderators show that anything outside ASCII is handled improperly.

Dianna, you are henceforth known as the "UNLU SARKICI" ... the "floury singer" (no, not "flowery").

It looks like they didn't do much testing, and rather rely on us to test it. (At least I hope so, because it would mean that they would do something with the feedback that is being thrown at them all over TT right now.)

Letting the users of a site do the testing is fine when the site is free, but it would be nice if there were some communication. Everyone would be much more patient and understanding if they told us "It's in development. Let us know if you run into something that doesn't work." But no.

I got the quote thing wrong.

OK, to manually quote something, you have to put this ">" in front of each paragraph, not each line. If automatically adds a line break after the paragraph. Still a pain.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

The link feature does not work with Safari. You can add a link by using HTML, however. <a href="http://some URL here">Link Title Here</a> (remove the astrerisks to make it work)

You can also use HTML to bold, italicize, or underline. HTML tags for line breaks also work. Blockquote tag does not

I hope boxxla won't mind that we do some testing in this thread.

bold
underline
italics

strike through? (with html)
> quote?
> another line.

And another line straight after to see if it inserts an blank line right after a quote.

Edit: the strike line (ha! Finally something good that the old TT couldn't do!) is done with <s>text goes here</s> (remove asterisks)

shilgia, you sure got that right! I'll bet everyone would have been pleased if the TT folks had said this was only a BETA version, PLEASE let us now what errors and omissions you guys find. But right now, IT SUCKS! Here's something I had to post on the Mexico branch just now so that the OP would even understand my answer to his question;

Well, dang! This new version of TT is REALLY bad for those of use typing Spanish and Mexican words on what is supposed to be the México (Mexico) branch. I don't know why, but the "preview", which used to show the EXACT WAY the post would appear in a thread, now shows only what SHOULD APPEAR, but DOESN'T, in the thread. When the message is actually posted, the new TT totally garbles all the words containing accent marks, the ñ - enye - the Spanish letter that is an "n" with a tilde over it - etc. That sucks! You can't even write the word A enye O, which means year; you have to write ANO which means A**HOLE! Whoever thought this up (some idiot techie) is a REAL ANO!

Oh, my previous post had the names Mazatlan, Mexcaltitan, and Mexico, written with the proper accent marks, but all that appears in TT is garbled garbage.

Thanks to nutrax I can at least show it as a proper quote! BUT you have to put the > on the paragraph you're quoting AFTER you put it as a separate paragraph. TT won't recognize the > if you just put it in then paste your quotation.

Edited by: mazgringo

Can you put in a horizontal line like the old TT?<hr>Yes you can. the tag is <*hr>(remove asterisk)