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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The paste into notepad route has a banana skin if you don’t copy the text from notepad again: your clipboard is still full of the word text, you paste it into notepad, fail to copy it and then paste (the original word text) into xerte. I’ve wondered if that’s what happens sometimes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ron Mitchell<br><b>Sent:</b> 10 July 2014 16:27<br><b>To:</b> 'For Xerte technical developers'<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] sanpit example of non standard chars<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>thought I should share this example of what was a non playing if not corrupted LO from the sandpit…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The helpdesk had a report from a user that his LO wouldn't export and now wouldn't play.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I checked the export first and sure enough it wouldn't export and then I verified that it wouldn't play either even though all looked ok in the editor.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So then I looked at the xml expecting it to be corrupt like we've had with other examples previously but in this case both preview.xml and data.xml were still complete. However I noticed two oddities shown in the following screenshots:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1. US instead of fingerprint line 121<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=673 height=90 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CF9C5C.194ACAD0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2. what should have neen an apostrophe line 116<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=239 height=102 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CF9C5C.194ACAD0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I've attached a copy of the xml so hope this gets through.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Questions I asked along with answers:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>1. Did you copy and paste text in from Word or another external source?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I did copy, but from Word and PowerPoint into Notepad so I could remove the formatting, then pasted into the LO.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>2. Did you re-import these LO's at any point?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>No<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>3. Are you ok with the dev team looking at a copy of the xml from your LO to try to identify the exact cause and future prevention?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Yes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I wonder if this would have ended up with a completely broken LO rather than just one that wouldn't play or export and I should add that after removing the UN directly from the xml and adding an apostrophe via the editor the LO plays and exports again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>HTH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ron</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>