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Forum Name: Web Wiz NewsPad
Forum Description: Support forum for the Web Wiz NewsPad application.
URL: https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=29839
Printed Date: 28 March 2026 at 9:25am
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Topic: import from forum

Posted By: andycoe
Subject: import from forum
Date Posted: 03 October 2011 at 2:31pm

I have tried to import the forum members into news pad and if the name has an o in it it changes it to a control charactar e.g Paul Parsons has become Paul Parsons. also Pete & Nicky Murdon has become Pete & Nicky Murd truncated.

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Posted By: billd3
Date Posted: 08 February 2012 at 1:00am

For some reaon it's actually that way in the forum database.

I was looking inside the database, at the table with the user info attemting to glean some information, and my name as well as all others with a o like you describe was "messed up" and made a clean CSV export literally impossible.

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Posted By: aussiem8
Date Posted: 24 March 2012 at 6:20am

Yeah, I saw that as well.

It's only where the name has an "on" and not all names with "o" in them. Maybe ASP get's confused with "on" if it's a pre-defined operator/variable.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 26 March 2012 at 11:52am

NewsPad will connect directly to Web Wiz Forums so that forum members can manage their Newsletter preference through Web Wiz Forums. You should not import forum members in to NewsPad.

Web Wiz Forums does encode 'on' and other characters, this is to prevent XSS exploits that can be used to hack and deface the forum.

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