Help:Odd characters or ASCII text
Sometimes you might paste in text that's been formatted in a word processor or other program that uses extended characters / special characters / other ASCII characters that aren't supported in the wiki.
For example, here's the Chorus of The Brave and Bonny Host that was formatted in Microsoft Word with square bullet characters:
Fill our cups with ale or wine or beer, We will stand together never fear; And we'll drink down a toast To the brave and bonny host That fights for the banner of An Tir.
The bullets appear as odd-looking squares with text, and as the lines only have a single return (and now wiki code the wiki understands), they are all run together.
Replacing the "broken" characters with the asterisks at the beginning of each line will tell the wiki it's a bullet list:
- Fill our cups with ale or wine or beer,
- We will stand together never fear;
- And we'll drink down a toast
- To the brave and bonny host
- That fights for the banner of An Tir.
Note if you are dead set on a particular character type, there may be a way to do it using HTML markup language, which is beyond the scope of this help topic.
- Fill our cups with ale or wine or beer,
- We will stand together never fear;
- And we'll drink down a toast
- To the brave and bonny host
- That fights for the banner of An Tir.