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Cannot Post to ‘Upgraded to Gen5 and speeds are still extremely slow at times’
Referring to the Cannot connect to ‘Upgraded to Gen5 and speeds are still extremely slow at times’ topic, now that I am able to connect to the ‘Upgraded to Gen5 and speeds are still extremely slow at...
Good morning folks,
I got curious about the character max in here so I had to dig a little to check. For posts, the character limit is 50000. When you copy and paste from other places, like Word, emails, and other websites, the HTML formatting gets copied as well and counts against the character limit. That's why the character count is greater than what's visible in the post.
Also, your post might look wonky when you try to copy/paste in here. I've learned from experience to copy/paste from Notepad, which has no formatting.
-Liz
Edit: I just learned something else! CTRL-Shift-V in Windows pastes without formatting; no need for Notepad.
Not sure if this is the reason for the small difference, but it might be possible: Macs treat hitting the return key as only a carriage return with no linefeed (1 total character: 0x0D) while Windows include the linefeed (2 total characters: 0x0D 0x0A). Really depends upon how those are counted and interpreted by the site's editor, even when typed vs. pasted in.
