[Medium] Uploading text files results in certain characters replaced with ???

[trdillah]

I saved a MS Word file as a text file. I uploaded the text file as a resume and the dashes, bullets, apostrophes display as a ???. See image:

The official file as displayed in TextEdit

Not sure if this should be assigned to @sulemandiwan or @nishanbose

Assigning as a fix for public release for now BUT this may work with other text files and I'll test later

[trdillah]

Okay, added a plain text file and this issue doesn't appear. Removing this from public release. Not sure what's happening otherwise as I saved this as an Mac OS text before (not Western ASCII). I'll likely need to document this as well--should it be text saved as "Western ASCII"?

[nishanbose]

The file is encoded in a different format and is not a typical txt file which is why the special characters are displayed. We may not be able to handle this right away.

I would say depending on the job seeker responses, we handle this issue.

[nishanbose]

So, how do we plan to handle this? Text files can have multiple different types of encoding.

[umichict]

The best way to handle this is to specify in the page the type of encoding that is supported. Or warn users that text files created by applications such as...may result in invalid characters so that they know ahead of time. We don't necessarily have to handle it, just set the expectations. Does that make sense?

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Nishan Bose notifications@github.com wrote:

So, how do we plan to handle this? Text files can have multiple different types of encoding.

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[trdillah]

Clearing milestone -- lower priority

[nishanbose]

Needs investigation