Resolved Can't Delete Story

[TheTrinary]

Title

Trying to remove my story Reaper's Game and can't. I get told I spelled it wrong every time but I'm pretty sure I didn't. Any help appreciated.

 

[Zirrboy]

Last time this happened, pasting the title did the trick

Otherwise check for spaces at the beginning/end?

 

[Motsu]

I don't know I think you spelled it wrong.

 

[Mihou]

I don't know I think you spelled it wrong.

It's an odd bug in SH. I've experienced it many times with test series and it exists. I have no idea what is making it see wrong even when retyped key by key, letter by letter. It only works when copied.

 

[Ruriha]

If it returns that error, copy-pasting the red highlighted title on the pop-up window should do the trick.

 

[Deleted member 57675]

Could be because of apostrophe in your title. Reaper's Game. Ik in previous works, if there was a ? or . it may prevent me deleting it and I had to change the title to remove those before I can delete it.

 

[TheTrinary]

Copy Paste worked. The only difference I saw was the ' looked different in the paste version. No idea what was going on there.

 

[AliceShiki]

Copy Paste worked. The only difference I saw was the ' looked different in the paste version. No idea what was going on there.

I tried doing a quick test copy pasting the title of a random story I saw on trending that happened to have an apostrophe in its title and...

This is the symbol used on Scribblehub's titles, apparently: ’

The ones I can type with my keyboard are ' ` and ´ ... None of those match with the symbol used on Scribblehub.

I dunno why, but it seems like Scribblehub automatically coverts ' into ’ , so the only thing you can do to get the symbol right when deleting a story, is to copy paste the title.

 

[Zirrboy]

The same character is used for the titles themselves, so unless the function that does this conversion is readily available, this is probably a pain to fix.
(This character, by whoever's standard, is preferred to the apostrophe, so my guess is that some database functionality is so kind as to replace them automatically)

Spoiler: Brute force fix nobody asked for lel

function slug(text) {
    return text.normalize('NFD').replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/, '-');
}

function dash_delete_series() {
    var t = $("#delete_seriesid").val()
      , e = $(".dash_title_delete").text()
      , a = $("#dash_deletetitle").val();
    $(".edit_saveerror").hide(),
    slug(e) == slug(a) ? ($("#dash_deletetitle").addClass("isdisabled"),
    $(".dash_deleteseries_btn").addClass("isdisabled"),
    $(".my_popupdelete_close").addClass("isdisabled"),
    $(".fa.fa-times.p_default").addClass("isdisabled"),
    $(".dash_deleteseries_btn").text("Deleting..."),
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "https://www.scribblehub.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php",
        data: {
            action: "wi_deleteseries",
            strPostID: t
        },
        success: function(e) {
            e = e.slice(0, -1),
            $(".search_main_box.dash." + t).remove(),
            $("#my_popupdelete").popup("hide"),
            $("#dash_deletetitle").removeClass("isdisabled"),
            $(".dash_deleteseries_btn").removeClass("isdisabled"),
            $(".my_popupdelete_close").removeClass("isdisabled"),
            $(".fa.fa-times.p_default").removeClass("isdisabled")
        }
    })) : $(".edit_saveerror").show()
}