When people send private messages the smiles and markup doesnt work. It just shows [letter] or [word] etc.
The private messages are set to use markup and HTML? Is this a known bug? and is there a fix?

Cat

Don't think that is a problem. When writing a PM, I see;

Markup / Plain Text Only (select box)

Selecting 'Markup' shows tags like , whilst de-selecting it shows stuff like [cool]

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I dont follow you. There is no checkbox for me to select. It just says Message Style: Markup

This is on the forum here too.



Cat

You don't see the drop down box? Have you made any changes to the templates that would cause this? This is what I see on the GT forum when sending a PM (attached)

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ok right i understand. Im using the advanced editor. There is no option there. Its default is markup. So it should work. But when people view the message it shows [erer]

I should make it more clear. If i send a message to a member it works ok. But often i get messages from other people that show the [werwer]
Some members send messages to me and there fine.
What are the people doing wrong that are sending the [erer]?

It's not a bug I've seen. Are you saying you get it intermittenly, for some it works and others it doesn't? Do the same users always have the error?

Is '[werwer]' a custom icon you've added?

sorry [werer] was just a random choice not a real example. I just meant i see the markup code.
What im saying is that i receive private massages that have [example] Where as I would expect to see the formatting they represent. I have not added any extra custom icons to the forum. It doesn’t seem to be intermittent. The same messages show the same thing whenever I open them. Just from some users its formatted with others I see the markup code!

Cat

If you switch to the basic editor and send yourself a message with [tags], does it get through properly?

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What version of the forum are you using? You post just triggered a faint memory. On an older version, I forget which exactly, when I'd do a spell check on a PM all sorts of markup would be thrown in.

That's since been corrected. I wonder if that's your problem?

Version 118.

If i sent myself a message in basic or adv editor it works fine. Just tested it.

Cat

see attached example message i was sent from user.

I would say that's exactly what I used to see when a spell check was done on a private message.

It's certainly worth a note to Jason. He had the cleared up, but this may be caused by something else entirely.