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20 Feb 22 - 04:54 PM (#4137318) Subject: Buffy Sainte -Marie Happy Birthday! From: GUEST,Lin Today, February 20, 2022 is Buffy Sainte-Marie's birthday. 81 years old. Hope it is a great celebration. ???????????? |
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20 Feb 22 - 04:59 PM (#4137319) Subject: RE: Buffy Sainte -Marie Happy Birthday! From: GUEST,Lin Don't know why everytime I post something, all these question marks come up at the end. Did a preview before submitting and didn't see any question marks. I definitely did not hut the question mark on the tablet I use. |
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20 Feb 22 - 07:36 PM (#4137333) Subject: RE: Buffy Sainte -Marie Happy Birthday! From: Thomas Stern Happy Birthday!!! Thomas |
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20 Feb 22 - 08:21 PM (#4137337) Subject: RE: Buffy Sainte -Marie Happy Birthday! From: Felipa Lin, Did you have an unusual characters in the original. For instance, if I try posting something with Hebrew or Arabic letters, they would look okay in the preview but show up as question marks in the final post. |
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20 Feb 22 - 09:44 PM (#4137344) Subject: RE: Buffy Sainte -Marie Happy Birthday! From: GUEST,Lin Felipa, Yes, actually I did. At the end of my message, I clicked on the birthday cake and icecream icons. Those never appeared on my post, just a lot of question marks. Is there a reason (tech wise) why that happens? |
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21 Feb 22 - 03:26 AM (#4137354) Subject: RE: Buffy Sainte -Marie Happy Birthday! From: Jon Freeman Guessing here... Both preview and the thread page are set to utf-8 so I think ought to display the same. Possibly the special characters are getting "mangled" by the database. |
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22 Feb 22 - 02:14 PM (#4137485) Subject: RE: Buffy Sainte -Marie Happy Birthday! From: Mrrzy Yay, bday Buffy! |
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22 Feb 22 - 04:35 PM (#4137496) Subject: RE: Buffy Sainte -Marie Happy Birthday! From: GUEST,Lin To Jon Freeman, I'm not really much of a tech person but this only happens on mudcat. I have posted messages on other sites but never have seen all these question marks appear at the end, even if I have clicked on an icon like a smiley face or birthday cake. Not sure why it only happens here.
Still and all, I wish Buffy a happy birthday. 😁-Joe- |
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23 Feb 22 - 03:15 AM (#4137539) Subject: RE: Buffy Sainte-Marie Happy Birthday! From: Jon Freeman Sorry to carry on but Lin, I think the simplest answer to you question is that it happens because something is not quite right here. The same has happened to me and others here. I had one the other day when I tried to post a Wordle share. Everything looked fine on preview but the characters for the coloured bars turned into question marks when I posted. My previous post attempted to come up with a possible reason why this might be: A preview displays the message as it is interpreted from the message submitted in the input form. When you make a post, this is added to a database and is retrieved from there to, eg. display a thread. If there is a discrepancy between the character encoding used by the database and the one for the input, we could wind up with characters getting lost or distorted. Anyway, I think further debate would need to go to a tech thread. |