Wierd insertion of yellow smiley faces
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I was looking back at one of my posts, and there were smiley faces substituting for the number 8, it seems, in this post (http://fencer.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/browsing-the-rock-encyclopedias/).
I went to the edit page and checked visual and html versions. No sign of anything different happening at those locations.
I haven’t checked all of my old posts to see where else this might crop up yet.
Anybody any ideas or experience with this.
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In your dashboard, go to settings>writing and uncheck the formatting box that says convert emoticons to graphics
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Or, if you like the other smileys but just want to get rid of the unwanted 8) one, use your html editor and insert
<i></i>between the 8 and the ). -
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Oh, well it’s just that lots of the forums I hang out on tend to have funny (or irritating, depending on how you look at it) automatic filters (e.g. socks becoming SOX!) But if you do the
<i></i>trick, you can avoid the filters and have control over your posts. -
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I think the original poster fencer has a point. I do have my blog set for the use of smilies but since we have the new WP platform I have found that the number 8 is mistaken for a smiley, i.e. it seems to be read as a parentheses.
I believe it is a legitimate bug in the new system that the staff should address.
Thanks for reading
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this still happens to me when it is not supposed to every since the new dashboard installation. everytime I go to label an mp3 as follows:
name of song – artist (1968)
it displays as:
name of song – artist (19 smiley face)
Again, there IS a bug that needs to be repaired. I do not want to turn off smileys because I sometime use them. But I also should be able to label a song as being released in (1968) and use the parens as I was able to do before the new dashboard.
Thanks
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that maybe — but (1998) is not! And I put NO SPACE between the second 9 and the 8.
The old version (under the old dashboard) knew how to distinguish. This version does not.
I just wrote support for what it is worth. Maybe if someone other than me writes them they will realize it is a problem and fix it – but I won’t hold my breath.Thanks. Have a nice weekend.
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I put the paren in for clarity and (duh) yes I always have to remove it since the script is malfunctioning. I hope you were replying to me in jest TSP. I get tired of people insulting my intelligence in this forum.
God bless
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