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What's this about? I got this error when trying to save my new signature.

I was attempting to put an elephant keyboard symbol within the signature, if that helps. When I took it out, the signature saved fine.

Edit: I actually got the same error when I tried to paste the elephant symbol here in this post to show what I meant. I think I have it figured out. Is it because I got it from an emoji site to copy-and-paste?

Archeuland and Baughistan wrote: Is it because I got it from an emoji site to copy-and-paste?

Probably. We don't have enough information on the character in question to address it properly, but if it's a character set that isn't supported under UTF-8, that's a likely explanation.

Archeuland and Baughistan wrote:I was attempting to put an elephant keyboard symbol within the signature, if that helps. When I took it out, the signature saved fine.

Edit: I actually got the same error when I tried to paste the elephant symbol here in this post to show what I meant. I think I have it figured out. Is it because I got it from an emoji site to copy-and-paste?

The Server only supports up uFFFF (aka ). Anything above that and you get allll kinds of errors. I 'think' these are known as UTF-16 encodings. It's a safety feature PHPBB side that skims through all known UTF-8 characters to make sure nothing unsafe is getting through without being sanitized first.

Though I couldn't say if NS has it's own mechanisms.

Edit

The code in question is:

U+1F418 (aka 🐘)

Which means that yes, it's out of bounds.