Odd characters

[ScubaSteve]

I just remembered :blush: ... I DID upgrade PHP and MYSQL recently on the DB server (last 3-4 weeks?). I'm looking into possible causes/solutions.

Any word on this? It is still happening and some posts are rather tough to decipher .

 

[John_B]

I've noticed last night that when I type the degree symbol on SB with my Macbook, I'm getting something similar. When I type Option-Shift-8 (actually Option-*) it is showing up as a capital z with an accent mark on top followed by the degree character: Ž°. It used to work but now is doing something strange. Did either your PHP or MySQL upgrade have any "improvements" to unicode character support?

 

[ScubaSteve]

I REALLY REALLY hope this gets resolved soon.

 

[John_B]

Agree 100% Steve. I tried to add the "cents" character (as in "my two cents") last night but got a goofy extra character for my trouble.

 

[redrover]

Is there any progress fixing this madness? ItÃÔ really annoying to have to reedit errors I didnÃÕ generate. ItÃÔ not just the contractions but with capitalizations and paragraph spaces, on and on. A bit hard to never use any of these.
Yes I can just write in the blank, however I prefer and function far better in Word for a number of reasons.
And had no problems for the years I've been here until now, this just happened over night, I posted one day fine, next day weirdness and I am not alone.
These are just recent and happen to be on my screen.

What was that I said .... I did not bold this, it was not bold on my screen.

to go squeegee off the flooded lanaiÃÔ. This is not a contraction but the multiple lanai, common english.
I canÃÕ fault That is a contraction

requesting ÀûSPAN style="COLOR: black">help us understand what happened? How did requesting 'help us understand what happened'. turn into that question?
...to consumer dissatisfaction.</SPAN> What the heck is this?
the fish©Õo much for smart quotes makes ..the fish to much... into that?

 

[El Orans]

Sorry, no solution yet.

 

[redrover]

Is there any progress fixing this madness? ItÃÔ really annoying to have to reedit errors I didnÃÕ generate. ItÃÔ not just the contractions but with capitalizations and paragraph spaces, on and on. A bit hard to never use any of these.
Yes I can just write in the blank, however I prefer and function far better in Word for a number of reasons.
And had no problems for the years I've been here until now, this just happened over night, I posted one day fine, next day weirdness and I am not alone.
These are just recent and happen to be on my screen.

What was that I said .... I did not bold this, it was not bold on my screen.

to go squeegee off the flooded lanaiÃÔ. This is not a contraction but the multiple lanai, common english.
I canÃÕ fault That is a contraction

requesting ÀûSPAN style="COLOR: black">help us understand what happened? How did requesting 'help us understand what happened'. turn into that question?
...to consumer dissatisfaction.</SPAN> What the heck is this?
the fish©Õo much for smart quotes makes ..the fish to much... into that?

I?m curious. I posted this as a new thread as it was appearing no one was paying any attention to the original one. Did it get moved?
I have to say there are other wierdiosities happening like I?ve posted and they apparently have gone off into the ether, at least they are not in the thread I posted to. (Among other new oddities.)
And that is one big reason I am in Word, I?ve spent a lot of time (sometimes J) on a post and I may not be finished ? this was a hypen there is no save a draft. I saw LOL someone asking about that recommended to write in Word J. And is really annoying to have spent a matter of days working out what I want to say, editing and editing, then it is gone and not retrievable. Certainly does not make me inclined to not use Word and have a copy for all that work if the board is going to flush it down the comode.

 

[redrover]

Thanks John.
That's cool.
The apostrophe above should confirm that it worked. In case others are looking to fix it, the following sequence worked in my version of Word:

Tools / Autocorrect Options / Autoformat As You Type / Replace as you type / "Straight quotes with smart quotes"

Now we have a lead toward how to fix the characters in posts that include non-English accent marks, etc.

This is not appearing to have any effect except change some way to look wierd.

What was that I said

the flooded lanaiÃÔ. Now it is

, I canÃÕ fault him

Very nice to see Atomic is reading, catching the complaint and requesting ÀûSPAN style="COLOR: black">help us understand what happened?

interest in responding to consumer dissatisfaction.</SPAN>

ItÃÔ really annoying to have to reedit errors I didnÃÕ generate.

ItÃÔ not just the

and the fish©Õo much for the camera focus

level. IÃÅ crop to just the head and

IÃÎ curious.

happening like IÃ×e posted

I am in Word, I?ve spent a lot of time (sometimes J) on a post and I may not be finished ? there is no save a draft.

is roughly 1 &#381;½" shorter

 

[ScubaSteve]

If it helps redrover, I have been having the same issues. Some of my posts just disappear and obviously I am having the same font issues. It is very annoying but I am putting all confidence in El that he will get it fixed quickly.

 

[redrover]

LOL I hope so, over two months now. I put all the wierdies in just incase they were clues for those that speak IT. My IT guy at work does wonders with screen shot clues.