Posting to LiveJournal and UTC-8

Scrivener Scrivener for macOS
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So, I started a new project and I like to post snippets on my LiveJournal page. However when I copy and paste to the journal and attempt to post it I get the following message

“Bad Unicode Input: Your browser sent some text which is not recognised as valid text in the UTF-8 encoding, as it should be. This might happen if you forced your browser to view the previous page in some other encoding rather than UTF-8.”

I tried moving the text to a word processor and saving it to RTF and others, but nothing worked. I also tried with three different browsers.

Any solutions? Can I not post anything I write in Scrivener to a blog?

Thank you whoever has an answer.

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That’s strange. What non-text characters are included in what you are pasting? It may just be that it doesn’t like the curly quotes or suchlike. (2.0 has a “Copy as BB Code” and “Copy as HTML” feature that should make this sort of thing easier.)

All the best,
Keith

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Other than normal periods, the only other thing is the curly quotes.

It is not too big of a deal at the moment since I am unpublished and have a zero reader base waiting for my book. Hell, I usually don’t want to read the crap most of the time!

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Normal periods? I meant normal punctuation.

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You should encode those as HTML entities anyway, it is way more stable to have a ” in your web document than a ”.

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Yes, as AmberV says, it’s definitely worth trying it without the curly quotes - it’s possible that they are causing the problems.

Best,
Keith