Sheet file for creating a poll

@Peter_pbn​ 

ASCII is an old character encoding system from the 1960s. It includes only 128 characters: the letters A-Z, numbers 0-9, some punctuation, and a few control symbols. Anything outside this set - like accented letters such as é or ö - is not part of plain ASCII. Instead, these letters belong to extended character sets, like ISO-8859-1, or to Unicode, which can represent thousands of characters from languages all over the world.

Even though é and ö are based on the letters e and o, they include accent marks or diacritics that make them visually distinct. In Unicode, the same character can still be encoded in different ways. For example, é can exist as a single Unicode character or as a combination of the plain letter e plus an acute accent (e + ´). Both forms look the same on screen, but the computer treats them as different codes. ASCII, by contrast, only knows the plain e and cannot represent the accent. The same applies to ö, which can be a single character or a combination of o plus a diaeresis (o + ¨).

A simple way to understand this is to think of a picture saved in two different formats, like JPEG and PNG. The image looks identical, but the files are different. Similarly, characters like é may look like a modified e, but they are encoded differently in the computer. Plain ASCII cannot represent these accented letters, while Unicode can store them in multiple ways. That is why accented letters usually work fine in polls, while some other punctuation or non-Western characters can sometimes cause errors.

The forum seems to take it. In that text up there is unicode as well as ASCII, but it wouldn't work for polls, which was no problem, in earlier times. I used Unicode before in polls. It worked fine. Now not.

P.S.: Just in countries where é and ö are normal keys on the keyboard, it seems to automatically take the ASCII-characters for. I guess so, because é and ö also wörk at my keyboard and the polls well.

@Peter_pbn​ That's why I put an autocorrect and flag to make it clear, and so that if someone doesn't want to change it, I'll probably update the file to edit it in a different way that's appropriate for the site.

@Breumaster​ I think it could be done by writing a script, but what command do you give to Chat GPT to make those changes? I need a format or a command or something like ASCII so that the changes are done automatically and all at once.

@RezaKJoi​ 

I make it like that: 

1. I write this line: Please test only for ASCII compliance (please don’t pay attention to “Added,” the dates, or title-lines like “1. Robert Duvall”, only the actual texts):
2. I copy and paste all options under it and let it go

P.S.: Please note: You can put the text under it by press Shift and Enter together. So you avoid a premature input of the order without the options copied under it.

@RezaKJoi​ 

Indeed I wanted to show you by copy and paste it in the posting above to visualize it and make it understandable, but the dumb forum always crops my texts, so it comes in one block, which really doesn't look understandable at all, afterwards. I set the mouse-pointer closely left to the first option, do a left click, hold it and pull down the marking to the last option. Then I do a right click on the marked options and copy them and paste them under the command-line I gave chat-gpt. You can also tell chatgpt in the commanding line to instantly correct the options when it finds any non-ASCII-characters. 

The sad thing is that this all wouldn't be needed, if the wesite would take also other than ASCII-codes with extensions, which are from the 1960s. I don't know why they have made it like that. I can only guess. Security, maybe? I don't know if the allowance of other codes may contain backdoors for attackers. My knowledge is far too less for saying why this happens. Maybe it has other reasons I even wouldn't understand. ;)

@Breumaster​ Thanks for your explanation. So you also use ASCII

@Breumaster​ Thank you for the complete information you provided. Sometimes things get complicated and don't need to be. I'm a bit short on time, but I'd like to design that file sheet in a way that will eliminate the hassle once and for all.

@rubyfruit76​ Thank you for your comment, I hope you find it useful after reading the text, but I published that post earlier but it was private and later it was opened twice, I plan to gradually make this file much more efficient, so that I can copy it from the original site, read specific data, etc. to make it easier to create a poll.