DB Error When Posting to Boards

[Troy]

Hey Chase, I had a problem using the boards today. In the field reports board, I tried creating my first topic and a message came up saying try again later.

I have no idea what went wrong and I'm a bit frustrated. This has been happening a few times lately so I need to inform you. What's going on with the field reports board?

I'm hoping to see whatever bug be dealt with soon.

Thank You

Troy

 

[Chase]

Troy-

Franco sent me the error message you passed along to him. Seems it happens when you're using characters our database can't decipher. These could include characters from another language (Persian, Korean, etc.), as an example.

I know you're not typing in Farsi but I'd examine the text and see if you're using any characters in there that maybe aren't standard English-language characters (maybe the machine you were using had its keys mapped funny).

Chase

 

[Troy]

Hey Chase,

I saw your reply to me that Franco forwarded in my inbox. I got the issue resolved now. As it turns out, the problem seems to have come from what app database system. I had a conversation with a girl on whatsapp and it turns out that I messed up somewhere so I decided to repost the conversation on here exactly as it is. Apart from the conversation, everything else I typed is just great. I just copied and pasted the conversation on Microsoft Word and typed up some supporting text with it.

As for me typing non standard English words, yes I did. In the Caribbean we don't speak standard English really. So me and the girl texted in broken English.

For example, instead of me saying

How are you?

I could say " Weh yu a deal wid?

Or

"Where is that girl I texted yesterday?" translates in my local language to

"Weh di gal de Weh mi txt yeserday?"

I speak 3 different languages and I'm learning French now. The language of romance..
I didn't give it any thought before that readers might not understand what I'm saying. I'm a fluent standard english speaker and writer otherwise. It's just a culture thing. Different countries, different languages. I should have retyped the whatsapp conversation in standard english before, maybe that would have helped or not caused this bug in the first place.

So I started retyping that what's app conversation and I'll be posting it on my new field reports coming tomorrow.

I already fixed the problem and my field report is looking great already. Lots more I have to say type up on it too. Over three weeks of extensive field reports I did in a notebook when my tablet was stolen. Everything is good otherwise though.

Here is a link to my field reports:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7771

Troy