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General => Chit chat => Topic started by: IchBin on September 03, 2005, 07:19:24 AM

Title: Bloc you see the weird characters?
Post by: IchBin on September 03, 2005, 07:19:24 AM
Something happened in your server move. I had a ÃÆ'ââ,¬Å¡ in my name until I changed it in my profile. Now I see it all over the site. On the front page and in some of the posts. It's everywhere and it's driving me nuts!! ÃÆ'ââ,¬Å¡ÃƒÆ'ââ,¬Å¡ÃƒÆ'ââ,¬Å¡ÃƒÆ'ââ,¬Å¡ÃƒÆ'ââ,¬Å¡ÃƒÆ'ââ,¬Å¡ÃƒÆ'ââ,¬Å¡ÃƒÆ'ââ,¬Å¡ÃƒÆ'ââ,¬Å¡ÃƒÆ'ââ,¬Å¡ÃƒÆ'ââ,¬Å¡ÃƒÆ'ââ,¬Å¡ÃƒÆ'ââ,¬Å¡ÃƒÆ'ââ,¬Å¡ lol.
Title: Re: Bloc you see the weird characters?
Post by: bloc on September 03, 2005, 08:28:27 AM
yes..something with conversion that didn't convert some charachters properly. But since I discovered it a bit late - the database already was filled with new data, I have just left it.
Title: Re: Bloc you see the weird characters?
Post by: ontap on September 03, 2005, 04:23:16 PM

lol this is prossbily because of phpmyadmin, happened to me when i moved server was something to do with collation settings i think.
Title: Re: Bloc you see the weird characters?
Post by: IchBin on September 03, 2005, 04:33:20 PM
Couldn't a simple SQL query be run to delete all the ÃÆ'ââ,¬Å¡ characters?
Title: Re: Bloc you see the weird characters?
Post by: bloc on September 04, 2005, 08:37:30 AM
maybe..I will try it out.
Title: Re: Bloc you see the weird characters?
Post by: zuma on September 05, 2005, 08:17:08 AM
Bloc, this is likely to be just an encodiing problem. Try changing this line in index.english.php -

$txt['lang_character_set'] = 'ISO-8859-1';

to this

$txt['lang_character_set'] = 'UTF-8';

zuma
Title: Re: Bloc you see the weird characters?
Post by: bloc on September 05, 2005, 10:14:46 AM
I have done that now..thanks.
Title: Re: Bloc you see the weird characters?
Post by: zuma on September 05, 2005, 11:30:36 AM
Didn't fix it unfortunately.. Perhaps try UTF8 instead of UTF-8 - more info here - http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=41241.0
Title: Re: Bloc you see the weird characters?
Post by: bloc on September 05, 2005, 11:59:17 AM
How about now?
Title: Re: Bloc you see the weird characters?
Post by: ontap on September 05, 2005, 12:16:00 PM

seems to have fixed it i think...
Title: Re: Bloc you see the weird characters?
Post by: zuma on September 05, 2005, 12:16:20 PM
Well, it's different ... and better I think. IchBin's got the TM back after his name and I can't see any garbage on the front page (but didn't notice it there before either). This post here - http://www.tinyportal.net/smf/index.php?topic=679.0 - has still got (different) garbage when viewed with IE - but OK with FF.

FF recognizes the page as having UTF-8 encoding but IE says Western European (Windows).

This might be as good as we'll get, but I'll fiddle around and post back in a minute.
Title: Re: Bloc you see the weird characters?
Post by: zuma on September 05, 2005, 12:32:48 PM
Checked a couple of long threads made before the move but couldn't see any garbage. Maybe when IchBin surfaces he'll know where to look. Tried editing this post - http://www.tinyportal.net/smf/index.php?topic=679.msg5275#msg5275 - and it can be edited out. So if it's only in a few places we can clean it up manually.

Something tells me the UTF-8 encoding is not quite right yet coz IE should say UTF-8. But anyway, we'll see what IchBin says.
Title: Re: Bloc you see the weird characters?
Post by: Nokonium on September 05, 2005, 06:54:42 PM
I'm now seeing squares where the characters used to be.
Title: Re: Bloc you see the weird characters?
Post by: bloc on September 05, 2005, 08:03:22 PM
I think i have to go back to original encoding..but we can just edit posts where it shows really.