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BannaOj and I are both seeing my name as V(box) instead of Vána (assuming that even turns out right) when I make a post. Anyone else having problems with special characters showing up?
Mods, has the font been changed? I'm not sure I want to be V(box) for the rest of my life! Posts: 2661 | Registered: Apr 2002
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changing the encoding to western european changes the Vana in the handle to the correct look, but the "Vana" that you typed in in your first post looks like VAjna Except the capital A has a squiggle over it.
While Vᮡ turns up in the name&member#, Vána works within the posting. Perhaps the moderator can change your name (maybe even back to Vána) while keeping your member# the same. Can't hurt to ask.
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I have been noticing the boxes for certain characters for several days, now, but I thought it was only my computer freaking out.
I have no idea how to change the Encoding to Western European, but doesn't sound as though it fixes the problem anyway...
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It should be in your 'view' menu.... but I use Konqueror on Linux, so I dunno how that transfers to IE or Mozilla... I see no boxes, though... *shrugs*
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Hmm...Western Euro fixes the names on display, but Va is now a Registered trademark. (R)...I don't know what key combination would make the circle-R. The other names are similarly incomprehensible in the message body.
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While I can switch Encoding on a page, every time I load a new page it reverts to the old, Unicode. How do you get it to stay put?
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Same here -- if I change it to Western European, it shows the symbols right, but as soon as you leave the page back to the main forum (or whereever) it switches back.
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The font set didn't change, the character encoding changed, probably due to the new software installed a couple weeks ago that likely internationalized the characterset, whereas before the set was ASCII.
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Thanks, Bok. I sent an e-mail. When I hear back on what can or can't be done to fix it, I'll post again or start a new thread, if it needs it.
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"View, Encoding, Western European Windows" fixed it for me. I was seeing V(box) and Alt(chinese characters) and so on, but now it's all back to normal.
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Oops, or it was before I posted, anyway. Afterwards it went back. How do you make it stay?
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Server/Forum admins need to change what charachter encoding they report. They are claiming to use Unicode encoding.
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I've been having this problem as well, and it is, indeed, a character encoding problem.
As far as I can tell, Firefox doesn't realize that the character set is ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-1. The page source for this thread has a meta tag calling out the Content-type as "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" but the page info still says the encoding is UTF-1. I have no idea what is causing that.
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*sigh* No e-mail back, yet. I'm still resisting registering a different name, though! I'd really like to keep this one - if it works right, of course.
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