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Title: Wierd characters
Post by: Chuck in E. TN on January 26, 2012, 07:06:05 PM: Why do I see so many posts with wierd characters inserted. One of my recent posts has a square inserted where an ' (asterisk) should be.

Chuck in E. TN

p.s. went back to look at this post after posting and it is apearing correctly! Go figure!
Title: Re: Wierd characters
Post by: WillieL on January 26, 2012, 09:26:38 PM: Gremlins. Don't get them wet...

:D
Title: Re: Wierd characters
Post by: rleete on January 27, 2012, 09:09:06 AM: I saw the title, and thought you were posting about some of the members here.
Title: Re: Wierd characters
Post by: WillieL on January 27, 2012, 09:15:19 AM: Actually, I saw the title and thought he was referring to me. :Doh:

:nrocks:
Title: Re: Wierd characters
Post by: Davo J on January 27, 2012, 09:16:59 AM: Quote from: rleete on January 27, 2012, 09:09:06 AM
I saw the title, and thought you were posting about some of the members here.

LOL,

Dave
Title: Re: Wierd characters
Post by: DaveH on January 27, 2012, 10:30:34 AM: Hi,

I thought it was something to do with HMS Victory and the Battle of Trafalgar

:beer:
DaveH
Title: Re: Wierd characters
Post by: andyf on January 27, 2012, 10:45:14 AM: Getting back to Chuck's original subject, I sometimes get the problem, and sometimes all is OK. With IE8, looked at one post just now where an apostrophe showed as a little "character unrecognised" square. Out of curiosity, I switched to Firefox, where the apostrophe looked OK. Weird, as Chuck said. Seems to show up on the following characters:
Apostrophe '
UKP sign £
and maybe quotation marks " colon : and semicolon :

I'll see how those turn out when posted; they look OK as I type.

Andy

Edit: they all look OK, apart from the UKP sign in IE8. It's really odd that, as I add this to the message in IE8, the UKP sign above looks fine in the text pane, but I bet it disappears once I post this edited version.

Never mind, the missing symbol can usually be deduced from the context.
Title: Re: Wierd characters
Post by: sparky961 on January 27, 2012, 01:10:45 PM: I suspect you would have less problems overall using Firefox or even Chrome. Of course if Chuck uses FF or Chrome, that theory is out the window at least where it applies to this forum... ;)

-Sparky
Title: Re: Wierd characters
Post by: Brass_Machine on January 27, 2012, 02:03:26 PM: I am still trying to figure out why this is happening. I think I know what the fix is, but I am not going to attempt it till off hours and i do a complete backup of the database :zap:

Eric
Title: Re: Wierd characters
Post by: Raggle on January 27, 2012, 04:19:01 PM: Just for information - I tried 3 browsers in Ubuntu - Reconq (part of KDE), Chrome and Opera

The only one to display the UK pound sign £ is Opera. Seems to be browser compatibilty problems.

Ray
Title: Re: Wierd characters
Post by: sparky961 on January 27, 2012, 10:25:59 PM: Never had much use for the pound sign anyway... not even on my keyboard ...... :P
Title: Re: Wierd characters
Post by: raynerd on January 28, 2012, 03:53:44 AM: I see strange things as well.... so your not alone!!

:loco: men in white coats coming soon.

.... I`m talking about symbols of course!
Title: Re: Wierd characters
Post by: Brass_Machine on February 19, 2012, 01:46:55 AM: Did I fix it?? Has it been fixed?

I think I got it!!

Eric
Title: Re: Wierd characters
Post by: andyf on February 19, 2012, 03:31:40 AM: It looks as though you have got somewhere with the symbols problem, Eric. I've had a look at the new posts which have appeared, and those threads no longer seem to be showing the little boxes which were replacing some characters. For me, the glitch seemed to be mainly with apostrophes and the pound sterling signs, so here is a test:

John's mother hasn't got flu.
In British pubs, beer can cost anything from £1.80 to £3.50 per pint.

Thanks again for all your efforts.
Andy