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General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]
Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\x98\xA0 \xF0...' for column 'draft_message' at row 1 [1366]

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I've came across this a couple of times but only when quoting a post from someone else and then trying to save it to my control panel as part of a larger draft.

If it didn't save properly then the above error message would appear. Eventually though I noticed that the person who's post I was quoting had obviously copied and inserted some other smilies/emojis/ into their post instead of choosing from the one's available. After I'd deleted these from the quote or replaced them with very similar meaning one's from on here though, the draft then saved without any problems.

Hardly an issue worth bothering much about as it doesn't seem to happen when posting any quote's directly, only when trying to save them as drafts - and I seldom do that anyway - so really just pointing it out in case anyone else happens to come across it.

michaelm wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 10:55 am Hardly an issue worth bothering much about as it doesn't seem to happen when posting any quote's directly, only when trying to save them as drafts - and I seldom do that anyway - so really just pointing it out in case anyone else happens to come across it.

As you say Michael, it doesn't seem critical, but I'll see if I can replicate it when I get the chance. We're about to head to the bush while our eldest son and family have a much needed break up in Queensland to get away from our Winter - we'll be animal-sitting during the week ahead.

Hughie, as you say it's nothing important .. enjoy the break.
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To replicate :

Quote this below that I've taken from another member's recent post and then attempt to save it as a draft - the general error message will appear.

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But if you quote this, where I've changed the smilies to the one's only available on here then it'll save as a draft without any problems.

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Thanks for forwarding the details on that for me to replicate, Michael. I can see that error which is caused by the emoji images which were used. That minor problem has been fixed in the latest version of this software.

Hughie- Tonight it seems to take ages to load up the forum. Nothing serious, just to let you know.

Just rose this morning and see this, I'll get onto the host.

I've had this problem as well lately. It even happened when I clicked "Board index" after reading a post. The error message in each case was (loosely translated) "the website is taking too long to answer". It seems to be okay now, though.

From the Host server. I'm hoping the outage and the reboot was to fix the earlier problem I wrote them about.

Hi Hugh,

Thank you for your email.

The server you're on experienced a small outage and needed to be rebooted. I have checked the site and I can see the website is back up.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.

If you have any further questions or inquiries please let me know.