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(Message started by: Barukh on Sep 23^rd, 2007, 11:58pm)

Title: Posting Problem?
Post by Barukh on Sep 23^rd, 2007, 11:58pm

Try to post a message that contains a Latin symbol with diacritic mark.

What do you get?

???

Title: Re: Posting Problem?
Post by Grimbal on Sep 24^th, 2007, 1:14am

Didn't we have that problem before?

Title: Re: Posting Problem?
Post by Barukh on Sep 24^th, 2007, 1:28am

Maybe (it went unnoticed by me).

Do we have a solution?

Title: Re: Posting Problem?
Post by Grimbal on Sep 24^th, 2007, 5:30am

Ã©

Title: Re: Posting Problem?
Post by Grimbal on Sep 24^th, 2007, 5:37am

We discussed it previously. I remember there was a solution, but it was for the % sign.
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_suggestions;action=display;num=1181783716;start=10#10

It seems to me that the firewall shielding the server only likes valid UTF-8 posts. If I set the page encoding to UTF-8 and post a e-acute (e+´) I get the above. It is an e-acute but with the 2 UTF bytes displayed as 2 characters. If I set the page encoding to UTF-8 for that reply, I see the e-acute. Maybe the web server should be instructed to use UTF-8 encoding?

Title: Re: Posting Problem?
Post by Sir Col on Sep 24^th, 2007, 5:55am

I hadn't noticed it before, Barukh, but I stumbled on it the other day too. I was trying to make a post containing the name, Schroedinger, but was forced to replace o-umlaut with oe because it kept "breaking" when I clicked "Post" or "Preview".

Grimbal, what was the solution for a character like, o-umlaut?

Title: Re: Posting Problem?
Post by Grimbal on Sep 24^th, 2007, 6:25am

There was no solution for accentuated characters, only a fix about the % sign.

on 06/21/07 at 13:44:10, towr wrote:

And now we can also post % to our hearts content again.

[e]actually, there's still a few strings beginning with % that don't work (like with 00), but I doubt they'll be a problem.[/e]