Slavik - Problems with codes in Posts instead of punctuation plus picture count issue

[Dugette]

Unfortunately some things were unable to be re-encoded from the originals: http://disboards.com/threads/trying...20-we-strive-to-meet-e.3377734/#post-53181939

So, does this mean that we either need to manually add all of our punctuation back or just leave it without (looking like we don't know how to write so well)? I have so much content that it would take a very long time to edit it all manually. However, if that is the only way, I wanted to check if any other issues are going to be addressed or if I should add them to the manual editing list:
1.) Font size came over much smaller and hard to read (I used to use Verdana 3-point and now use Verdana 5-point for the same size I used to have - so the old 3-point is now tiny).
2.) Post titles (i.e. chapter titles of Trip Reports) vanished. Is that content gone for good?
Thanks for all your work on this. I do appreciate it, just hoping to preserve all the writing I've done in a readable form.

 

[andrewilley]

Thankfully, I only had two big FAQ posts to worry about, which I cut'n'pasted back into my PC's text editor as BBCode text and edited them there. That was much easier than trying to do it all online. Then I just pasted them back into the online editor afterwards.

One post had had all of the extended-ASCII punctuation marks removed completely, while the other (which had originally been uploaded in the same manner) had them all replaced with some sort of null character which Notepad++ interpreted as "?". It did give me the incentive to do some general updates to the wording too, which was a bit overdue in one case.

It still took the best part of three hours to modify and check both posts though.

As to @Dugette's points though, I tend to avoid using size, font and colour changes for the body text of posts anyway - although I do use them for headlines. However if you really can't avoid them, if you follow the method I used above then a quick search & replace in a local text editor will fix them in a whole document in a few seconds.

I really doubt that header titles for individual posts will ever be coming back, as I guess the individual post subjects really should be as per the main thread title (the logic being otherwise why not start a new thread?). Anything needed within an individual post would thus need to be included within its body text within [ b ] bold tags (and maybe [ center ] centred too?).

Andre