Strange characters in posts/threads?

Community Talk & Bug Reports Discuss, Strange characters in posts/threads? at CDFreaks / MyCE forum; After CDF came up from all the downtime today, I've been noticing odd characters all over the place (and I don't mean the members )...can't provide an example, but if you look in Blank Media at some of the thread titles, you'll see what I mean. Anyone else seeing this?

Old Posted: 12-04-2006
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After CDF came up from all the downtime today, I've been noticing odd characters all over the place (and I don't mean the members )...can't provide an example, but if you look in Blank Media at some of the thread titles, you'll see what I mean.

Anyone else seeing this?
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Thanks for letting us know Arachne, confirmed and reported, so someone will fix it the next couple of hours!
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Thanks for taking the time to respond and confirm - I can see you guys are hard at work!
Nice to see CDF back up, I was getting withdrawal symptoms
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Old Posted: 13-04-2006
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Other sister sites like http://liggydee.cdfreaks.com are still hard to reach.
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An example is Sen's name....
The character set is not correctly implemented I'd say...
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Old Posted: 13-04-2006
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The whole site is still work in progress. Not everything is configured the way it has to be. And I think some servers will still be added too.

The character set issue already came up when the forum server was changed some time ago. It should be easy to fix it again.
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An example is Sen's name....
The character set is not correctly implemented I'd say...
That's true as the forum no longer recognises "Sen" as my username when logging on!

On the other hand, I can log on by copying & pasting my weird username from a post into the logon field. So for anyone else who has unusual characters in their nickname, this trick should work assuming they have at least one post made where they can copy their username from.
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On the sidenote of sister sites - ala42's is down too.
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The weird charakters were like "3" where " should stand, IIRC.
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Old Posted: 13-04-2006
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Originally Posted by Sen
That's true as the forum no longer recognises "Sen" as my username when logging on!

On the other hand, I can log on by copying & pasting my weird username from a post into the logon field. So for anyone else who has unusual characters in their nickname, this trick should work assuming they have at least one post made where they can copy their username from.
I think I fixed it Sen. At least it appears correctly in the forum. See if you can log on again.
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Old Posted: 13-04-2006
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My characters are broken as well and I still need to login with those weird characters. So, I am afraid it isn't fixed yet.

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Old Posted: 13-04-2006
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I don't mean to sound rude or do a dbl. post but can you look at my login problem thread. If I change my password after a reset it say's invalid bla bla.

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Those strange charavters are still coming up



with age…..
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Old Posted: 14-04-2006
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Yea, noticed the same problem here. Just tell your browser to use Unicode as the character set instead of Western European until it's fixed on the server.
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Yea, noticed the same problem here. Just tell your browser to use Unicode as the character set instead of Western European until it's fixed on the server.
It didn't help
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Place is coming in loud and clear using my IE with normal settings
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Still getting some weird ones, they have appeared in my own posts where before they were normal and some of the read firsts are showing funny, for example these in the media forum (not links):
CDFreaks’ “first look” at Traxdata DVD-R DL
CDFreaks’ “first look” at Labelflash™

Though the ones above the Traxdata one are normal looking.
Old Posted: 15-04-2006
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Still getting some weird ones, they have appeared in my own posts where before they were normal and some of the read firsts are showing funny, for example these in the media forum (not links):
CDFreaks’ “first look” at Traxdata DVD-R DL
CDFreaks’ “first look” at Labelflash™

Though the ones above the Traxdata one are normal looking.
I'm still seeing those also ...but you can get a general idea of what the threads are about, thank God
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Maybe so but when I first saw them I thought "Hold on I haven't been smoking something funny have I?" and if I have I can't remember so it must have been good Then I realised it wasn't me.....
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Old Posted: 19-04-2006
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Research on this issue is ongoing.
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Old Posted: 20-04-2006
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Research on this issue is ongoing.
Um, it's quite simple, as pointed out...

Your server's response headers:
Code:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
In addition, this is in the headers of each generated page:
HTML Code:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
Telling the browser that your character set is ISO-8859-1 when all your special characters are apparently encoded as UTF-8 is problematic. Change the ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 should fix the problem.

It would also help if the use of non-ASCII characters (like the fancy curly quotes and apostrophes ) is kept to an absolute minimum. Many people avoid the sort of fancy double and single quotes that MS Word is so fond of because they are non-ASCII and can often wreak character encoding havoc and create incompatibilities with some older and text-based applications.
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Old Posted: 20-04-2006
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Changed the supplied charset from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. This should fix most of the character. But it will probably lead to some posts being displayed incorrectly that were made during the last week.
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Old Posted: 20-04-2006
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Hi Liggy

I hope that this is the right place to post. In italian forum there are many incorrect characters. I'm referring to accented vowels, like "è".

While I'm writing this post, I find that the accented vowel "a" is automatically converted in "ê".

And this problem is also in posts oldest than a week
This is only an example

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showpost.ph...35&postcount=7

(see the word "velocitê". Sorry I can't show you the correct word because the right letter is automatically subsituted with the wrong one)
Old Posted: 21-04-2006
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Hmmmm. The forum and the database are both set to UTF-8.
Found something...
Testing:
áéíóúàèìòùâêîôû
Looks better now (at least here)
That was the solution
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