Since the move, you may have noticed that certain files which had special characters in them - the second Mini-Story Omnibus, for instance, which has a ton of diacritical vowels, like the grave-accent e in Therèse - seem to be all screwed up.

As near as I can tell, this is happening because the source files are encoded in Western (ISO-8859-1) and the server is mistakenly claiming to your browser that they're Unicode (UTF-8). Until I can get with the server admin to see if this can be sorted out on the backend, here's a workaround: If your browser has a "force this encoding" function, use it to force the browser to view the files as ISO-8859-1 anyway, and the strangeness should go away.

(In Firefox, for instance, this is accomplished with View -> Character Encoding -> Western (ISO-8859-1). Just setting the default encoding to this won't help, I think because the server is making some kind of incorrect encoding declaration. When I pull my View -> Character Encoding tab down, it's always preset to Unicode (UTF-8) regardless.)

Hopefully this is a simple server config issue that can be cleared up in short order. I'll keep you posted.

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LAST EDITED ON Aug-24-08 AT 11:33 PM (EDT)
 
Yup, simple httpd config setting. Should be okay now. Deej is once again the Man.

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LAST EDITED ON Sep-01-08 AT 01:02 PM (EDT)
 
Weirdness, is Therèse supposed to have what looks like a quote between the à and the s?

t.
whose firefox is set to Western.

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LAST EDITED ON Sep-01-08 AT 01:15 PM (EDT)
 
I believe it's supposed to be 'Therése"

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Lime2K
The One True Evil Overlord
(whose copy of Safari apparently defaults correctly, but still shows 'Therèse' above too.

>Weirdness, is Therèse supposed to have what looks like a quote
>between the à and the s?

Are you seeing it in the omnibus itself, or my post above?

The encoding on a few posts here is fouled up because, well, they were made when the server's settings were incorrect.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Admin
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You're right... I just re-checked the story, and it shows correctly. My bad!

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Lime2K
The One True Evil Overlord
who has no idea how you can stand typing all those accent marks on a PC