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Title: [TODO] Confusion in the "special characters"
Post by: GiovaneDinamitardo on January 14, 2011, 11:56:59 PM

... ehm ...

 something strange must behappened after the last restore the site: I realized that, instead of "special characters", in the threads appears a strange symbol that look like a question mark.

The fact is that the consequences are even in dire: whole sentences are removed from view.

I noticed that this happens when you meet these characters:

"ù"

"..."

apostrophe (eg: I'M, or WAHT's, or I'D)

I have to change something in my browser, or indeed the site has been scrambled?

Title: Re: confusion in the "special characters "
Post by: FallinG_StaR on January 15, 2011, 12:38:51 AM

Yes, I've been seeing the same in several topics and posts... the entire content of the post disapears or the only thing left is just some letters or just quotes.

Title: Re: confusion in the "special characters "
Post by: Lum-chan on January 15, 2011, 06:27:45 AM

Please point me to those thread/posts, so I can see what went wrong. UTF8 seems to be b0rked here. May need to get another update to get this fixed..... sigh...

Title: Re: confusion in the "special characters "
Post by: GiovaneDinamitardo on January 15, 2011, 04:13:02 PM

Surely all the thread of the section "RPG, storyline and fanfiction (http://www.lum-chan.com/index.php?action=forum): any time I wrote "Lamù" a lots of phrases are disappeared until you meet another <<question mark>>.

Now that I go "in deep", in the threads that I used the japanese ideograms now it appears a lots of "???????".

Title: Re: confusion in the "special characters "
Post by: Cosmic King on January 15, 2011, 07:24:26 PM

Most of "Nightmare Battle" is suffering from this mysterious bug, Fearless Leader, but I am sure you already saw how it looks now

From now on we will have to type carefully or face these question marks of doom

Title: Re: confusion in the "special characters "
Post by: Lum-chan on January 16, 2011, 12:22:26 PM

For the time being, yes, please do. I'll dig into this and will try to correct all those thingies. Currently the forum is in UTF-8 modus but the conversion went wrong with the last update to SMF 1.1.12. Contacted the developers-team of SMF on how to prevent this in the future.

Title: Re: confusion in the "special characters "
Post by: Lum-chan on January 17, 2011, 01:57:48 AM

Oke I just have finished a lot of edits to you posts. As far as I can see almost all odd thingies are gone now. However there were some posts with other odd combination's of characters which replaced the '

Somehow I missed those after editing tho most commonly errors but I forgot to bookmark those pages. If anyone stumbled upon such a page/post, please post that particular thread here, so I can fix these as well.

Title: Re: confusion in the "special characters "
Post by: Cosmic King on January 17, 2011, 04:31:59 AM

* Cosmic King bows down before Lum-chan *

Thank you, Fearless Leader

Title: Re: confusion in the "special characters "
Post by: FallinG_StaR on January 17, 2011, 04:55:49 AM

Btw the forum is fast as lightning... press post and "zap" it's done.

Title: Re: confusion in the "special characters "
Post by: Lum-chan on January 17, 2011, 10:12:33 AM

Thank you, thank you  ;)

Erm... Stickying this topic for the time being. This due to some minor 'special characters' issues.

Please keep reporting, thank you.