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trouble practicing

Nicki   May 10th, 2009 10:54p.m.

I've had some trouble practicing since yesterday. Every time the character

mēn, mèn
stuffy; cover tightly; keep silent, bored; melancholy; sealed

comes up, all my wrong strokes start staying on the screen. I can draw a pretty picture but I have no idea how to write this character and the show button isn't working either. Reloading the page sometimes gets me a different character, and those work fine until I finish them and try to go to the next character. I can't advance to the next one, the one I just finished stays on the screen. I have to reload again to get a new one, and if it's

mēn, mèn
stuffy; cover tightly; keep silent, bored; melancholy; sealed

then the cycle starts over again....

I'm using chrome, and I've restarted my computer which didn't fix the problem. Is there something else I should try?

Nicki   May 10th, 2009 11:05p.m.

Same problem in IE. A brief message flashes up....
I think it says:

Corrupted/missing character 闷

百发没中   May 11th, 2009 6:07a.m.

Well, you know the rules...you break it, you buy it :)

Nicki   May 11th, 2009 6:31a.m.

Hmmm....

nick   May 11th, 2009 10:34a.m.

Hmm, I thought I'd fixed this. I have reuploaded that character, and it appears to be working again -- let me know if I'm mistaken.

Sorry about that one!

Nicki   May 11th, 2009 7:56p.m.

Much better now, thank you! Now, to make up for the two days practice I lost.....

Go go go!

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