Thank you so much for replying Christian. We were using UTF-8 already, these are the settings in place.
[client] default-character-set = utf8mb4 [mysql] default-character-set = utf8mb4 [mysqld] character-set-client-handshake = FALSE character-set-server = utf8mb4 default-storage-engine = MyISAM > Are you the admin on the server? We could check some things. Unfortunately I am not the administrator, but in contact with the person who is. So can ask for commands to be run or config files to check if it would help. On Wednesday, 18 January 2023 at 21:49:48 UTC Christian Hammond wrote: > Hi Jon, > > Most likely, the database being used is MySQL and the tables weren’t > created with UTF-8 support. More annoyingly, until recently, MySQL’s UTF-8 > support didn’t support Emojis. > > To work around the latter, we support Emoji shortcodes. Here’s a list of > known ones: > https://gist.github.com/rxaviers/7360908 > > But that doesn’t help with copying/pasting. > > Other databases (Postgres) and new databases created on MySQL 8+ don’t > have this issue. > > Are you the admin on the server? We could check some things. > > Christian > > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 04:31 Jonathan Combe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Review Board 4.0.11. >> >> I tried to paste in a comment as a reply to a review comment from >> Outlook. The email contained a smiley symbol. >> >> This did paste into the comment box OK and I hit OK, but I didn't get an >> error but I also didn't get the green banner asking to publish or discard >> the comment. If I reefrshed the page the comment is gone. >> >> If I turned on Developer mode I could see it was raising an HTTP 500 >> Internal Server Error, but this wasn't visible to the user. >> >> Is this a known issue? Is there a fix for it? Otherwise have to manually >> filter things like this out from emails which is a nuisance. >> >> Thanks >> Jon >> >> -- >> Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: >> https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ >> Want us to host Review Board for you? Check out RBCommons: >> https://rbcommons.com/ >> Happy user? Let us know! https://www.reviewboard.org/users/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Review Board Community" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/reviewboard/934fcf9f-80cd-4af1-a0ee-adddf4a91baen%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/reviewboard/934fcf9f-80cd-4af1-a0ee-adddf4a91baen%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > -- > Christian Hammond > President/CEO of Beanbag > Makers of Review Board > -- Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ Want us to host Review Board for you? Check out RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ Happy user? Let us know! https://www.reviewboard.org/users/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Review Board Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/reviewboard/96130d2b-b90b-4958-bd64-f09e13a09d69n%40googlegroups.com.
