# Test

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test/477014>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [December 13, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test/477014 "2008-12-13T16:16:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test/477014/1 "2008-12-13T16:16:46Z")

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ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པ་དྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་

OK, shows up in preview. Let’s see what happens when I push the ‘Submit New Thread’ button…

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**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test/477014/2 "2008-12-13T21:13:50Z")

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Hmmm…weird. Just plain weird.

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**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test/477014/3 "2008-12-13T21:56:16Z")

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What was you expecting to happen, **Washoe**?

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**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test/477014/4 "2008-12-14T03:24:19Z")

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I was trying to make a string of Tibetian text appear. It works fine in preview, it works fine when I post it, but then it becomes a string of question marks. I’m going to try it one more time to see if I can determine the time interval between the initial post and the mysterious conversion to a string of question marks:

ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པ་དྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་

I’ll try it in Chinese too:

唵嘛呢叭咪吽

OK—this is officially creeping me out. Now I can see it in Tibetian script _in the OP_ again. I think opening MS Word has something to do with it, because I composed this post in Word and pasted it into the reply box.

What the hell is everybody else seeing?