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ci�nas 
"hands down"
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 Posted - 05/26/2009 : 16:06:51
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Is there any way of transferring text characteristics like these to reviews on the site?
Thanks.
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RockGolf 
"1500+ reviews. 1 joke."
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Posted - 05/26/2009 : 16:31:09
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| Alas, no, except for the actual superscript characters in some font. For example x�y� where the 2 & 3 are actual superscripted versions of those characters. (I copied these as Alt+0178 & Alt+0179 from Arial unicode on the Character Map.) Can't set alignment, bolding, italics, underscore or colors on reviews either. |
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ci�nas
"hands down"
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Posted - 05/26/2009 : 20:20:59
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Ah yes, I see what you mean. So: I can do squares & cubes but not molecules...
Thanks for the info.
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benj clews
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Posted - 05/26/2009 : 21:02:29
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I wouldn't count on any of these working long into the future. It's only because the site is written in a way that is quickly becoming outdated and less well-supported by browsers that these special characters currently display at all. If ever the site should change (and it will), these reviews will suddenly become gibberish.
The ideal would be to use the HTML markup representation for these characters but this is unlikely to make you too popular with MERPs who have to read this stuff by the bucketload. If possible, I'd rather prefer it if we kept away from the less common characters for reasons of making the MERPs lives easier and the data more easily ported to other mediums. |
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lemmycaution 
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 05/26/2009 : 22:37:51
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quote:
Originally posted by benj clews
I wouldn't count on any of these working long into the future. It's only because the site is written in a way that is quickly becoming outdated and less well-supported by browsers that these special characters currently display at all. If ever the site should change (and it will), these reviews will suddenly become gibberish.The ideal would be to use the HTML markup representation for these characters but this is unlikely to make you too popular with MERPs who have to read this stuff by the bucketload. If possible, I'd rather prefer it if we kept away from the less common characters for reasons of making the MERPs lives easier and the data more easily ported to other mediums.
Then they'll have something in common with most of my reviews.  |
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RockGolf
"1500+ reviews. 1 joke."
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Posted - 05/27/2009 : 13:11:01
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Sorry to hear that. When looking in that same character set, I found an Arabic symbol that looked like a simple version of a face, two dots for eyes, one for a nose and an upturned curve for a smile. I thought that this would be a perfect review for "Looking for Comedy In The Muslim World" and submitted it as a single-character review.
Alas, it doesn't look as smilie-like in the fwfr font, so I doubt it will be accepted in any case.
I tried to paste it in here. It looks fine in preview but when posted changes to "#1660" |
Edited by - RockGolf on 05/27/2009 13:27:07 |
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duh
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 05/28/2009 : 02:01:21
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Originally posted by Ro�k G01f, MD+
Sorry to hear that. When looking in that same character set, I found an Arabic symbol that looked like a simple version of a face, two dots for eyes, one for a nose and an upturned curve for a smile. I thought that this would be a perfect review for "Looking for Comedy In The Muslim World"
Speaking of that film... |
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 05/28/2009 : 15:02:41
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| Toddler fu, both of you. Sensei? |
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lemmycaution
"Long mired in film"
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aahaa, muahaha
"Optimistic altruist, incurable romantic"
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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superscript, subscript, &c
