Ree’s musings

I have discovered something fascinating.

My previous entry posted without problem, but stubbornly refused to crosspost to LiveJournal. I kept trying; no luck. I tried the only other service I had set up in Tabulas, DeadJournal; same result.

I wrote a concerned little note to Roy and a rather less cheerful one to my LJ page, explaining my problem. Then, I think, I went to bed or otherwise distracted myself.

Tonight, with nobody to babysit, I returned to my task. A new revelation dawned: perhaps the Song of the Cebú was to blame! Rather, its title, complete with accent. Some things just can't grasp UTF-8 encoding, which I think is what Tabulas uses.

So I removed the song title from my "Currently listening to" box and tried again to crosspost. Success! I hadn't actually expected that. After so many failures, I assumed the problem must be entirely out of my hands, but here we are.

Presumably this entry will not crosspost nicely either. Oh dear. I didn't think of that when starting out. Now that I know the issue, I can always edit the entry to omit the accent, crosspost, then replace the accent on all versions of the post. Tedious, certainly, but much better than a failure message.

Aha! Yes, more failure. Hilarious, now that I know the cause. My plan B worked nicely.