Botched Apostrophes

[wb416]

Why can't Scubaboard's version of vBulletin handle apostrophes that are pasted in from other text sources? It's the only vBulletin board I've run across (so far) that's got this problem.

This has occurred when copying in from Notepad, a WordPress blog, or another vBulletin site.

Example:
Pretty much out of gas after that, so I didnÃÕ make another attempt.

A 3 second improvement didnÃÕ seem like much, so I did a comparison of "first attempt" and "most recent attempt" on all the distances where I've rowed twice at least a month apart. What I found was enlightening:

 

[bleeb]

Ongoing issue being looked at: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/site-support/259572-odd-characters.html
Appears to be partly due to non-standard encoding of character in Windows.

 

[Web Monkey]

Why can't Scubaboard's version of vBulletin handle apostrophes that are pasted in from other text sources? It's the only vBulletin board I've run across (so far) that's got this problem.

This has occurred when copying in from Notepad, a WordPress blog, or another vBulletin site.

Different character sets.

If you copy from a document that's "ISO-8859-1", I would expect it to work.

If you give me a URL that doesn't work, that is ISO-8859-1, I'd be happy to take a look at it.

Terry

 

[wb416]

So... are you saying that Scubaboard is using a different character set than is the default configuration? (otherwise I'm surmising that I'd see other vBulletin sites with similar issues)

 

[TheScubaBOB]

Quick fix is to paste the text into notepad then copy it from notepad to SB, this removes all unicode.

 

[Web Monkey]

So... are you saying that Scubaboard is using a different character set than is the default configuration? (otherwise I'm surmising that I'd see other vBulletin sites with similar issues)

I don't know what anybody else uses, however SB uses the above character set.

Terry

 

[wb416]

Quick fix is to paste the text into notepad then copy it from notepad to SB, this removes all unicode.

I've tried that before (a few months ago) with the same result. I was taught to use Notepad to avoid introducing extraneous characters so was surprised when it didn't work out. I'll have to check it again to see if works now.

 

[wb416]

I don't know what anybody else uses, however SB uses the above character set.

Terry

Well youÃÓe not much help now are you?

 

[wb416]

Different character sets.

If you copy from a document that's "ISO-8859-1", I would expect it to work.

If you give me a URL that doesn't work, that is ISO-8859-1, I'd be happy to take a look at it.

Terry

Okay... I did some research. It appears that ISO-8859-1 is the vBulletin default (although some install UTF-8 for compatibility).

Zendiving uses ISO-8859-1 as well, which further puzzles me since I copied from ZD to SB and ran into the character problem again today.

Here is the post I copied from on Zendiving. Perhaps you could try the link as well to see if you have the same results.

Pretty much out of gas after that, so I didnÃÕ make another attempt.

A 3 second improvement didnÃÕ seem like much, so I did a comparison of "first attempt" and "most recent attempt" on all the distances where I've rowed twice at least a month apart. What I found was enlightening:

Improvements %
250m 6.5% (3 sec)
1000m 5.3% (13 sec) (havenÃÕ tried a PR in almost a month)
5000m 6.4% (97 sec)

Thanks!

 

[wb416]

On one of my WordPress blogs, I changed the encoding from the default recommended UTF-8 to the ISO-8859-1. Not sure what other problems that might introduce on RSS feeds though.

My first copy/paste test in the fitness forums appears to have worked so far.