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 Trail running, bike hucking, fast packing, beer drinking collector of pine cones on a day pass
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Dances with Trees
Forest Gnome Cabin
Canada
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Posted - 01/26/2010 : 6:49 PM
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Some time ago I noticed that a number of my TRs ( and others) somehow ended up with text issues. Not sure how it happened, Jim, but at any rate here's an example. Starts in the first line of this one....
’ seems to subbed for apostrophes, among other things, in case you don't see it on your browser
http://www.clubtread.com/sforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=29645 |
Edited by - mick range on 01/26/2010 6:50 PM
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Posted - 01/26/2010 : 7:45 PM
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I think it's a new secret retread language. 
And Mick's posting is a coverup. |
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 Big pack hiker who sleeps with bears in tent and falls on slippery logs
Langley, BC
Canada
7647 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2010 : 07:35 AM
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| That is weird. Looks like some kind of encoding issue. We'll look into it. |
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High River, (just south of Calgary eh!), Alberta
Canada
1703 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2010 : 07:50 AM
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| Many of my trip reports have this issue too. I think it's a function of cut & paste from Word but the gibberish symbols didn't show up until some setting or another on the site was changed. I've also had some issues in the recent past with cut & paste stripping my punctuation. |
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Chilliwack, BC
Canada
570 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2010 : 10:21 AM
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I think it must be related to some computer setting. I always use Firefox, because I could afford to buy it, and I get Mick's funny symbol at work (I know, I know!). At home, I can see the apostrophe properly.
I suspect it's a language setting. |
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High River, (just south of Calgary eh!), Alberta
Canada
1703 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2010 : 10:34 AM
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I get the same results (funny symbols) both with IE8 & Firefox.
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Vancouver, BC
Canada
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Posted - 01/27/2010 : 11:15 AM
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It looks like a character encoding issue. The text is encoded using "Unicode (UTF-8)", but many browsers default to "Western (ISO-8859-1)". You can change this preference in your browser. In Firefox, it's under the "View : Character Encoding" menu. But if the server is modified to send out response headers which specify the character encoding, that should fix the problem regardless of browser defaults.
Right now the header reads:
Content-Type: text/html
So the browser has to guess. If it can be changed to:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Then hopefully (guessing a bit here, character encoding is a finicky beast) things will be good.
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| Eryne
Intermediate Member
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Chilliwack, BC
Canada
570 Posts |
Posted - 01/27/2010 : 12:49 PM
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| I did that and now I can see them apostrophes clearly! Yippee! |
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Posted - 01/27/2010 : 1:33 PM
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I had issues with Firefox in the past and got rid of it.
No more problems, and not here either.I get what I type for, though last week the "Aurigma image uploader" was not responding very well. |
Edited by - cambium on 01/27/2010 1:37 PM |
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Hope, BC
Canada
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Posted - 01/27/2010 : 4:50 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by Wheat
It looks like a character encoding issue. The text is encoded using "Unicode (UTF-8)", but many browsers default to "Western (ISO-8859-1)". You can change this preference in your browser. In Firefox, it's under the "View : Character Encoding" menu. But if the server is modified to send out response headers which specify the character encoding, that should fix the problem regardless of browser defaults.
Right now the header reads:
Content-Type: text/html
So the browser has to guess. If it can be changed to:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Then hopefully (guessing a bit here, character encoding is a finicky beast) things will be good.
You are exactly right, I submitted this issue long ago, but was told it was because people are copying and pasting from Word Documents. I strongly believe it is the Character Encoding within the CT code. I've seen many many threads that are garbled because of this issue. |
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Mountain Grammar Police
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Sardonic sandbagging scoundrel, Cascade Climbers lobotomized spraymeister, space blanket flyer, new millennium vulgarian betaboy and friend to all squids
Climbing, a mountain
Canada
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Posted - 01/27/2010 : 5:18 PM
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Vancouver, BC
Canada
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Posted - 01/29/2010 : 7:56 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by Wheat
It looks like a character encoding issue. The text is encoded using "Unicode (UTF-8)", but many browsers default to "Western (ISO-8859-1)". You can change this preference in your browser. In Firefox, it's under the "View : Character Encoding" menu. But if the server is modified to send out response headers which specify the character encoding, that should fix the problem regardless of browser defaults.
Right now the header reads:
Content-Type: text/html
So the browser has to guess. If it can be changed to:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Then hopefully (guessing a bit here, character encoding is a finicky beast) things will be good.
Thanks - that fixed the issue for me! I write all of my TRs in Word or Notepad so reading my old TRs was annoying with extra jibberish. |
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Trail running, bike hucking, fast packing, beer drinking collector of pine cones on a day pass
AKA
Dances with Trees
Forest Gnome Cabin
Canada
13055 Posts |
Posted - 01/29/2010 : 8:08 PM
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Originally posted by keefer
I think it's a new secret retread language.
And Mick's posting is a coverup.
I'm only an apprentice, they haven't taught me the code yet |
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Trail cuttin, GPS packin bushwhacker, wiki hike compilin, who is now Hope-less
2542 Posts |
Posted - 01/29/2010 : 9:41 PM
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All better now?
And why can't *I* enter the crazy Word quotes? They get stripped out to blank for me. Maybe just the old TRs are affected? Is the stripped out thing a bug, or am I loosing it? |
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Vancouver, BC
Canada
2660 Posts |
Posted - 01/30/2010 : 5:45 PM
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Originally posted by ShadowChaser
Maybe just the old TRs are affected? Is the stripped out thing a bug, or am I loosing it?
Yes, it was just old TRs. |
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Trail running, bike hucking, fast packing, beer drinking collector of pine cones on a day pass
AKA
Dances with Trees
Forest Gnome Cabin
Canada
13055 Posts |
Posted - 01/30/2010 : 6:28 PM
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Thank you, Eric  |
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