{ lj weirdness }

[the_muppet]

I've been having trouble the last few days being able to leave a comment in certain places. Not everywhere, just a handful. And I think now that it's when I try to put a heart (&-hearts-;) in the comment. Anyone know why this would happen?!

SORTED! See comments if it's happening to you =)

Comments

[anmkosk]

Huh. I just tried it in an answer to this entry, and the comment never went anywhere. Weird. I wonder if it's a bug or if they have deliberately changed something to prevent those hearts (and I'll be very annoyed if it's the latter).

[the_muppet]

Yep, that's what kept happening to me =)

[anmkosk]

Oh, there's a note about it in the support page:

"Comments containing special ASCII characters (such as the 'hearts' character: ♥) are currently causing problems. Either the 'post comment' button will become grayed out, or you will receive a 'Frank's nibbling on the wires' error; in either case, the comment cannot be posted. Removing these special characters from your comment will allow you to post the comment. This issue is reported."

[the_muppet]

Thank you darling! And it took me two days to work out it was possibly the 'heart' that was causing it!

[deirdre_c]

OMG thank you for pointing this out. The (seemingly) random errors I've been getting all weekend have been driving me completely bonkers! At least now I know what's going on. *hugs*

[the_muppet]

Took me 2 days to narrow it down to that though!

Happy to help you out for a change, lovely <3

[doubleholmes]

It's because you type in that to make the heart. stop doing it, and you won't have a problem.

[the_muppet]

I know that now!