myBB upgrade thread
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Augh. Definitely an encoding issue on the quote marks. I THINK it's trying to reference left and right leaning quote marks, but the system only recognizes it in 20% of all cases. I'm got a find/replace string with all five messed up characters in Raa's fic but it hasn't solved the actual problem.
Adding this to my "Oh god help me" list for icyboards.
Adding this to my "Oh god help me" list for icyboards.
I've sort of figured out why the garbage characters are happening, the board is using UTF-8, I think extended which should really be called UTF-16. Now double quotes are two different characters, LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK and RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK with hex values of 201C and 201D, astute readers will notice that these are 2 bytes longs. So what's happening is that these are read out of the old database wrong for some reason 201C becomes 00E2 0080 009C. I can explain the last two, their names are CONTROL and STRING TERMINATOR but not the first one
Okay so, weird thing. Tried to post a story.
When I pasted it, the font size grew tiny. Then I switched the size to Size 2. I hit preview... and my font size became tiny again. Plus, with a bunch of spaces between paragraphs added for some reason. I tried switching to Size 3 and that worked, but it keeps happening whenever I try switching the size to 2.
When I pasted it, the font size grew tiny. Then I switched the size to Size 2. I hit preview... and my font size became tiny again. Plus, with a bunch of spaces between paragraphs added for some reason. I tried switching to Size 3 and that worked, but it keeps happening whenever I try switching the size to 2.
Yep. Ages ago I figured it had to be something like that. Unfortunately there's not much I can do about it; I plugged all the errored quote values into the word filter and it fixed a fourth of them. This is on the list, and I'm posting it to the help forum later tonight.
Weiiiiiird. Do it again and send me a screencap, would you?
Weiiiiiird. Do it again and send me a screencap, would you?
On a different note, anyone have any word on when the Win7 64 bit/IE 11 issue with the post screen is going to be corrected.... where if using quote, then type stuff, then post reply, it dumps what was manually typed and only gives the quotes material... forcing someone whom has not copied the text to the clipboard to edit the post retype it, or or edit the post and repaste it if they have....
It is most annoying. I think I'm up to about a dozen times that has occurred.
It is most annoying. I think I'm up to about a dozen times that has occurred.
I'm curious on one thing. Did the forum upgrade to 1.8, or 1.8x. I ask as I was poking around on the MyBB site in an attempt to see if I could find anything of use in regards to my issues on this forum after the upgrade. And I discovered that almost exactly a year ago, upon the initial introduction of 1.8, that apparently others were reporting the same problems with 1.8 and IE in regards to the edit box on the post reply screen. I found a thread of them discussing it and they supposedly issued a fix and released it as 1.81.
If it was upgraded to 1.8x, could that 1.81 have been undone at some point by them?
If it was upgraded to only 1.8, then I think we need to go to at least 1.81... I think I found reference to 1.86 as the newest, though it may well be higher.
If it was upgraded to 1.8x, could that 1.81 have been undone at some point by them?
If it was upgraded to only 1.8, then I think we need to go to at least 1.81... I think I found reference to 1.86 as the newest, though it may well be higher.