You Know What I Hate?

GenJerDan

I hate it when you copy some code from the web and, when you paste it, the quotation marks are wrong and you have to search and replace all the “ and ” with " and ". Yeah, not hard...but annoying. edit: The “ doesn't show up here as the incorrect opening quote. More weirdness.

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Munchies_Matt

It is weird isnt it, it looks exactly the same, but wont compile. Only happened to me once, took minutes to work it out, a strange character set that looks like ascii but isnt. I guess it has some benefits, it makes the 'codes plz' brigade do some fucking work.

Matt L

This used to happen at my old job with deploy instructions written in a Word document. Everything about the deploy was here and in order. Mainly to minimise the chances of any production down time, but it was also used to sync development machines after a major deploy (There was dozens of devs). Copy and pasting Web.Config entries from the word doc into a config file would cause frustration for everyone at least once. But Hey-ho, who really expects mickeysoft tech to play well with others, even family.

W Balboos GHB

Rule One for copy/paste of code and stuff: First, paste into a featureless wort processor, like Notepad, to get rid of all the hidden features. You can make sure it only shows in your preferred font and crazy stuff is basically destroyed/replaced. I use this when I'm sent documents (like from M$Word), the content of which is supposed to be posted to a web page. Should go a long way in fixing your problems preemptively.

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GenJerDan

I did, actually. I think my Notepad is set to UNICODE, though, so it happily left the characters as-is. :p

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RJOberg

GenJerDan wrote:

think my Notepad is set to UNICODE

So mine is set to ANSI, but it still doesn't fix the characters. Tried it with all four possible txt formats in Notepad. I used to paste stuff in Notepad to remove all the silly characters and then one day it stopped working as expected. Notepad++ also started behaving in the same fashion which leads me to believe it is something system level. Haven't been able to figure out what changed and I'm still dealing with it. Ended up writing a little JS applet which replaces and sanitizes whatever I paste into it. :mad:

Jacquers

Or when you copy and paste and it includes line numbers :doh: