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17 Nov 19 - 04:41 AM (#4019665) Subject: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade? From: DMcG 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? |
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17 Nov 19 - 04:53 AM (#4019671) Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade? From: DMcG A “test”. Another ‘test’. |
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17 Nov 19 - 05:09 AM (#4019674) Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade? From: Jack Campin There's been an outbreak of diarrhœa in Pangæa, too. |
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17 Nov 19 - 09:48 AM (#4019757) Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade? From: Nick Apparently on a roller coaster you can do the dip song thing |
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17 Nov 19 - 09:49 AM (#4019759) Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade? From: Nick Sorry I meant dip thong sing No... |
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17 Nov 19 - 10:08 AM (#4019765) Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade? From: GUEST,jag I wonder if like many other websites it has started converting to 'fancy quotes' as well as just accepting them |
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17 Nov 19 - 10:10 AM (#4019766) Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade? From: GUEST,jag No. That's good. ABC code in posts won't get mangled as it does elsewhere. |
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17 Nov 19 - 10:13 AM (#4019768) Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade? From: GUEST,Jack Campin Sorry I meant dip thong sing ðat would have been better written as "dipþong þing". |
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17 Nov 19 - 11:09 AM (#4019780) Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade? From: Backwoodsman Or even ‘diphthong’. |
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17 Nov 19 - 11:15 AM (#4019781) Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade? From: DaveRo Fixed 18mths ago according to my post here. A subtle plug ;) |
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17 Nov 19 - 06:28 PM (#4019898) Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade? From: DMcG 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? |
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18 Nov 19 - 04:39 AM (#4019968) Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade? From: GUEST,Grishka Let's make a test: “iPod quote”. ?????? |
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18 Nov 19 - 04:48 AM (#4019975) Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade? From: GUEST,Grishka 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 |
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20 Nov 19 - 05:11 PM (#4020570) Subject: RE: Tech: A subtle Mudcat upgrade? From: Donuel But there is no spell check for mi |