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Offsides
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Jun-20-12, 12:00 PM (EDT) |
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"Non-english characters in postes (esp. Mini-Stories)"
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I've noticed this a lot lately, and I don't know if there's any good way to fix it, but some of the special characters in posts require me to have firefox in Western (ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15) mode, and some of them require me to have it in Unicode (UTF-8) mode. I'm assuming that's due to either different authors using different character sets when creating, or due to a change at some point over time. I just wish I didn't have to keep telling Firefox to change the encoding manually, since it seems to be really good at guessing the incorrect encoding... :( Offsides [...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. -- David Ben Gurion EPU RCW #π #include <stdsig.h> |
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Gryphon
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Jun-20-12, 01:16 PM (EDT) |
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1. "RE: Non-english characters in postes (esp. Mini-Stories"
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>I've noticed this a lot lately, and I don't know if there's any good >way to fix it, but some of the special characters in posts require me >to have firefox in Western (ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15) mode, and some >of them require me to have it in Unicode (UTF-8) mode. I'm assuming >that's due to either different authors using different character sets >when creating, or due to a change at some point over time. I just >wish I didn't have to keep telling Firefox to change the encoding >manually, since it seems to be really good at guessing the incorrect >encoding... :( I'm pretty sure this is touched on in the Mini-Story forum introduction, but: The problem is that we changed to Unicode a while back (when the server moved, I think), and the older posts haven't been converted. I believe the new server is configured to tell clients to use Unicode, which is a problem for said older posts. I haven't converted the old posts because a) some, particularly in Featured Documents, are in the archive and can't be edited through the forum interface any more; b) it would create a flood of false "new post" positives, similar to the time a user who shall remain nameless decided to edit every post he ever made in order to change his sigblock, and we all remember how confusing that was; and c) I can't be arsed. So... at least you know why it happens now. :) --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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Offsides
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Jun-21-12, 11:00 AM (EDT) |
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2. "RE: Non-english characters in postes (esp. Mini-Stories"
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>So... at least you know why it happens now. :) > Fair enough - that's more than half of what I was looking for, so thanks!Offsides [...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. -- David Ben Gurion EPU RCW #π #include <stdsig.h> |
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