Demi, thanks for providing examples. We understand your frustration, but unfortunately, people were abusing the ability to post foreign characters into subjects and posts to the point of making the board unreadable.

We now know that the ellipsis (…) and the em dash (—) are non-ASCII characters. They are the culprits in two of your examples. We did not have a problem pasting the article about the Nun into a test message.

We're looking into adding exceptions for characters that appear often in text, such as the ellipsis and em dash. If you encounter any other characters that present a problem, please let us know.

I'm just going to go ahead and leave this here as my archive

"Tokyo, February 13 (QNA) - The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant said water samples taken from a newly-dug well contained the highest levels of radioactive cesium detected so far in groundwater at the site."
http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/upi20140213-114508-9013

We've got the nuclear repository in the USA near Carlsbad, NM, which discharged plutonium to the atmosphere and set of monitors 1/2 mile away.

"An independent analysis has uncovered trace amounts of plutonium in an air sensor a half mile from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico — the first time plutonium is believed to have leaked outside from within the facility.

It also was the highest levels of plutonium ever detected near the nuclear waste storage facility in its 15 years of operation, according to Russell Hardy, director of the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center."

http://www.abqjournal.com/355900/news/nm-news/trace-of-plutonium-is-detected-outside-wipp.html

And finally, nuns are being sentenced to years in prison for protesting nuclear... and somehow made it all the way into the very innermost security area of a Tennessee nuclear weapons facility.

Nun, 84, gets 3 years in prison for breaking into nuclear weapons complex

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - An 84-year-old nun was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in prison for breaking into a U.S. nuclear weapons complex and defacing a bunker holding bomb-grade uranium, a demonstration that exposed serious security flaws.

Two other activists who broke into the facility with Megan Rice were sentenced to more than five years in prison, in part because they had much longer criminal histories.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nun-84-gets-3-years-in-prison-for-breaking-in-nuclear-weapons-complex/"

I even went here...
http://www.unit-conversion.info/texttools/ascii/

Pasted the entire thing into "Text > Ascii"

Then copied the ascii output, put it in the imput, and did ascii > text text, and pasted it into PT... still gave the ascii error, even though that's completely impossible.

If you could just go ahead and make a thread called Fukushima Nuclear Melthrough (XIV) with this body

"Hell of a lot of nuclear news going on out there these days, folks!

We've got new estimates coming out about the amount of radiation leaked by Fukushima, and, shocker, they're MUCH MUCH higher than previously guessed or reported. One model estimates Fukushima was releasing more Cs-137 EVERY DAY during the explosion and fires than Chernobyl did in TOTAL. And, FINALLY, as exhorted in these threads for 3 years, people are really paying attention to plutonium.

"Based on these results a source term of 10^17 – 10^18 Bq/day [100 PBq/day – 1,000 PBq/day] seems reasonable"
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265931X1100275X

In the meantime, radiation levels in the groundwater around the plant continue to climb higher and higher every day.

"Tokyo, February 13 (QNA) - The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant said water samples taken from a newly-dug well contained the highest levels of radioactive cesium detected so far in groundwater at the site."
http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/upi20140213-114508-9013

We've got the nuclear repository in the USA near Carlsbad, NM, which discharged plutonium to the atmosphere and set of monitors 1/2 mile away.

"An independent analysis has uncovered trace amounts of plutonium in an air sensor a half mile from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico — the first time plutonium is believed to have leaked outside from within the facility.

It also was the highest levels of plutonium ever detected near the nuclear waste storage facility in its 15 years of operation, according to Russell Hardy, director of the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center."

http://www.abqjournal.com/355900/news/nm-news/trace-of-plutonium-is-detected-outside-wipp.html

And finally, nuns are being sentenced to years in prison for protesting nuclear... and somehow made it all the way into the very innermost security area of a Tennessee nuclear weapons facility.

Nun, 84, gets 3 years in prison for breaking into nuclear weapons complex

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - An 84-year-old nun was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in prison for breaking into a U.S. nuclear weapons complex and defacing a bunker holding bomb-grade uranium, a demonstration that exposed serious security flaws.

Two other activists who broke into the facility with Megan Rice were sentenced to more than five years in prison, in part because they had much longer criminal histories.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nun-84-gets-3-years-in-prison-for-breaking-in-nuclear-weapons-complex/"

That'd be great. Thanks. There's no way I'm working through all that to figure out what stupid characters your stupid site can't handle.

This could not be a more annoying problem.

"Nun, 84, gets 3 years in prison for breaking into nuclear weapons complex

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - An 84-year-old nun was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in prison for breaking into a U.S. nuclear weapons complex and defacing a bunker holding bomb-grade uranium, a demonstration that exposed serious security flaws.

Two other activists who broke into the facility with Megan Rice were sentenced to more than five years in prison, in part because they had much longer criminal histories."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nun-84-gets-3-years-in-prison-for-breaking-in-nuclear-weapons-complex/

Demi-

I hope you don’t mind the outreach; I came across your profile on LinkedIn while networking in CO on a couple of projects.

I’m looking for a Remediation Project Manager for our Contaminated Site Management practice in our Denver office. We need someone with at least 10 years of site assessment, investigation, and remediation experience…similar to yours. This person would be working closely with one of our Program Directors on several contamination projects and redevelopment sites. I’m not assuming that you’d be interested, but at the very least I figured you might know someone with whom I should connect. Of course, if you’d like to discuss this opportunity yourself that would be fantastic too! Either way, please get back to me and let me know.

Thank you in advance and I look forward to hearing from you!

-Nathan