character biography inquiry

[kumati]

I'm having an issue with the character biography in the player options...albeit more annoying than problematic.

Is there a character or word limit in that public biography box? Because no matter how much or how little I copy and paste or type directly in, it cuts off at 281 words when I update.

[Saulus]

Most likely a bug, add it to the website bug section on the forum. Keep in mind the player options feature is in beta so there are bound to be a few bugs.

[Kaeldorn]

There isn't a limit, no, but it won't take certain symbols. You should check where exactly it is cutting off, remove/edit that symbol to something that is accepted, and then it should work.

Took me about half an hour to get mine in completely

[kumati]

It cuts off at the letter "t" in the word "both". Which is preceded by a hyphen, that being the only non-alphabetical symbol, aside from standard punctuation. But still, thanks for the tip.

[Kaeldorn]

Hmm, sounds odd. My own bio (and those of a number of other people) reach in the thousands of symbols and still fit in, so I can assure you there isn't such a low limit. There must be something else making yours not update properly...

[Konchuu]

In my case it cut of at any ' I had in my text.

[sharringtonm]

You all copy /pasting it from a word processer? You might have format incompatibilities.

[Jai_V]

Yeah. Try using a text document if you're going to cut & paste...they're standard format.

[kumati]

I attempted pasting from notepad, and experienced the same problem - only this time it cut off before a hyphenated section. Pasting from a word processor, it went a word past the hyphen.

Tried something else: I cut the hyphen (standard thing, the key next to the zero: - ), and it kept everything. I'd hate to see what happens with a hyphenated word.

Note: Looked at a few more bios, and hyphens don't seem to be the problem. Must just be me. :P

[wangxiuming]

I haven't had any problem typing the thing in the player options directly. If you're worried about losing data (which I have done many many times making posts. doh!), you can always CTRL+a and then CTRL+c to copy. If you accidentally press the back button on your browser or something, you can just use CTRL+v to paste it back. Of course, you have to repeat this process regularly to be safe.

[kumati]

Thankfully I'm fully aware of the copying and pasting process and how to achieve it. I write the more lengthy posts in a word processor before putting them online, as it is.