[bug] cannot create collection with specific description
Thursday, March 18, 2021 - 00:05
Hi,
I tried to create a collection with the following description: https://gist.github.com/ArneBab/83bdbe0fd7b7279174b8d76523d5d37b
As result I got a 500-error:
500
Internal Server Error
The same happens when I try to post the text here in the forum.
Creating a collection with only the first line works: Addressing the lack of fun animations that say well-done. → https://opengameart.org/content/you-are-great
This also happens when I edit the collection to include the description.
Developer tools report that I sent this content: https://gist.github.com/ArneBab/83bdbe0fd7b7279174b8d76523d5d37b#gistcom...
That is caused by certain special characters. Specifically, fancy versions of regular punctuation. Some word processors and devices (especially iOS) like to change your normal keyboard version of hyphen, quote, or apostrophe to em dash, curved quotes, or angled apostrophe, respectively. This is why the problem only occurs when you copy text from some other rich text source, since typing it directly can't possibly result in characters that aren't on your keyboard... Unless you're typing on an iOS tablet or something; apple really likes to change stuff as you type. For some reason the site treats the non-keyboard characters as code format characters or control tokens.
In this particular case, the problem is the angled apostrophe in the conjunction I'm in your fourth paragraph. At least based on the github text, that is.
--Medicine Storm