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The move to UTF-8
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I think it's awesome that y'all switched the encoding to UTF-8, seriously. But you might like to know that it's screwed up all the non-ASCII characters from before, such as bullets in bulleted lists and the é in Exposé. They show up as a diamond with a ? inside it. I'm all for UTF-8, so hopefully this is easily fixable.
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Mac Elite
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And I thought it was just me going crazy
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Clinically Insane
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Just to be clear, new non-ASCII characters work fine (in fact, better than before). It's old ones that are stored from when the site was ISO-Latin that freak out. If you want to see it, take a look at this thread.
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Oh man, I thought it was another Tiger problem! Is this gonna be a live-with-it thing, or is there a way to fix the old entries?
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You can always temporarily change that browser window's text encoding back to ISO Latin 1.
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Originally Posted by tooki
You can always temporarily change that browser window's text encoding back to ISO Latin 1.
tooki
I assume you will let people whose user names include accented characters change their name to correct the display of said accented character under UTF-8 (Oisin comes to mind)...
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already fixed Oisin's name.
so yeah, they just need to say something.
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This has been bugging me too. Lét's sèë îf ít's fìxëd.
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You might want to change the copyright strap at the bottom of each page:
All contents of these forums are � 1995-2005 MacNN. All rights reserved.
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You can always temporarily change that browser window's text encoding back to ISO Latin 1.
tooki
I changed my browser to ISO latin 1 and the quirky Diamond symbol with ? still shows up...
guess it´s a live-with-it thingy
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Originally Posted by Diggory Laycock
You might want to change the copyright strap at the bottom of each page:
Yeah, I reported that bug to the web folks as soon as the change was made.
tooki
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Will this allow my username to be shown as an Omega symbol instead of this stoopid "?"!!!
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Originally Posted by _?_
Will this allow my username to be shown as an Omega symbol instead of this stoopid "?"!!!
Don't get your hopes up.
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Originally Posted by _?_
Will this allow my username to be shown as an Omega symbol instead of this stoopid "?"!!!
It should work now. Can you paste in the character you want? I'll then put it into your username.
tooki
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Originally Posted by ManOfSteal
Ω
Did this work?
Yup!!!
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Originally Posted by tooki
It should work now. Can you paste in the character you want? I'll then put it into your username.
tooki
Missed this post!!!
Ω also known as option z.
If names can be 1 letter long I would also prefer the underscores dropped as well (3 letter minimum in the old system)
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I'll see what it lets me do.
I asked about the omega since Unicode has upper- and lowercase omegas.
tooki
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Originally Posted by tooki
Ta-da!
tooki
Yay!!
Now in a couple of years I can change it to "the poster formerly known as Ω"
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by tooki
I asked about the omega since Unicode has upper- and lowercase omegas.
Yeah, but who wants "ω" as their name? Unless you're a fan of these folks, I guess...and are willing to admit it.
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Chuck
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I dunno, I was just being thorough!!!
tooki
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Originally Posted by Diggory Laycock
You might want to change the copyright strap at the bottom of each page:
Fixed now. It took me a while to find where in the templates it's buried! (Each notice was coming from a different place.)
tooki
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