Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade?

Subject: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade?
From: DMcG
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 04:41 AM

I am fairly sure we used to have a problem that non ascii characters showed up as invalid, the most obvious being versions of single and double quotation marks that have the 6-9 style rather strictly vertical as in the ANSII set. So for a long time when I posted a clipping from elsewhere I carefully changed the punctuation. I have just posted one without doing that and Mudcat has displayed the result happily on my phone. But I can't tell if this is just because I posted it, or if others can see these characters happily.

Are they now supported?

Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade?
From: DMcG
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 04:53 AM

A “test”. Another ‘test’.

Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 05:09 AM

There's been an outbreak of diarrhœa in Pangæa, too.

Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade?
From: Nick
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 09:48 AM

Apparently on a roller coaster you can do the dip song thing

Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade?
From: Nick
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 09:49 AM

Sorry I meant dip thong sing

No...

Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade?
From: GUEST,jag
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 10:08 AM

I wonder if like many other websites it has started converting to 'fancy quotes' as well as just accepting them

Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade?
From: GUEST,jag
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 10:10 AM

No. That's good. ABC code in posts won't get mangled as it does elsewhere.

Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade?
From: GUEST,Jack Campin
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 10:13 AM

Sorry I meant dip thong sing

ðat would have been better written as "dipþong þing".

Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 11:09 AM

Or even ‘diphthong’.

Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade?
From: DaveRo
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 11:15 AM

Fixed 18mths ago according to my post here.

A subtle plug ;)

Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade?
From: DMcG
Date: 17 Nov 19 - 06:28 PM

Thanks, DaveRo. But I feel sure people were having trouble with characters more recently than that - I seem to remember something on iPad characters appearing as squares quite recently. My question, I suppose, is, technically, whether the database behind Mudcat has been changed to support Unicode characters when it did not seem to do so in the past?

Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade?
From: GUEST,Grishka
Date: 18 Nov 19 - 04:39 AM

Let's make a test: “iPod quote”.
??????

Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade?
From: GUEST,Grishka
Date: 18 Nov 19 - 04:48 AM

The quote seems to work, but not the non-English characters. The HTML has been switched to UTF-8 some time ago, but, as DMcG rightly points out, the script that writes the stuff into the database has not followed suit, possibly with a few hand-selected exceptions?

Гришка

Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade?
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Nov 19 - 05:11 PM

But there is no spell check for mi