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wu :: forums    riddles    suggestions, help, and FAQ (Moderators: Grimbal, Eigenray, towr, SMQ, ThudnBlunder, william wu, Icarus)    Posting Problem? « Previous topic | Next topic » Pages: 1  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print    Author  Topic: Posting Problem?  (Read 1119 times) Barukh Uberpuzzler     Gender: Posts: 2276 Posting Problem?   « on: Sep 23rd, 2007, 11:58pm » Quote Modify Try to post a message that contains a Latin symbol with diacritic mark.     What do you get?     IP Logged Grimbal wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler     Gender: Posts: 7526 Re: Posting Problem?   « Reply #1 on: Sep 24th, 2007, 1:14am » Quote Modify Didn't we have that problem before? IP Logged Barukh Uberpuzzler     Gender: Posts: 2276 Re: Posting Problem?   « Reply #2 on: Sep 24th, 2007, 1:28am » Quote Modify Maybe (it went unnoticed by me).   Do we have a solution? IP Logged Grimbal wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler     Gender: Posts: 7526 Re: Posting Problem?   « Reply #3 on: Sep 24th, 2007, 5:30am » Quote Modify é IP Logged Grimbal wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler     Gender: Posts: 7526 Re: Posting Problem?   « Reply #4 on: Sep 24th, 2007, 5:37am » Quote Modify We discussed it previously.  I remember there was a solution, but it was for the % sign. http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_sug gestions;action=display;num=1181783716;start=10#10   It seems to me that the firewall shielding the server only likes valid UTF-8 posts.  If I set the page encoding to UTF-8 and post a e-acute (e+´) I get the above.  It is an e-acute but with the 2 UTF bytes displayed as 2 characters.  If I set the page encoding to UTF-8 for that reply, I see the e-acute.  Maybe the web server should be instructed to use UTF-8 encoding? « Last Edit: Sep 24th, 2007, 5:38am by Grimbal » IP Logged Sir Col Uberpuzzler impudens simia et macrologus profundus fabulae     Gender: Posts: 1825 Re: Posting Problem?   « Reply #5 on: Sep 24th, 2007, 5:55am » Quote Modify I hadn't noticed it before, Barukh, but I stumbled on it the other day too. I was trying to make a post containing the name, Schroedinger, but was forced to replace o-umlaut with oe because it kept "breaking" when I clicked "Post" or "Preview".   Grimbal, what was the solution for a character like, o-umlaut? IP Logged mathschallenge.net / projecteuler.net Grimbal wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler     Gender: Posts: 7526 Re: Posting Problem?   « Reply #6 on: Sep 24th, 2007, 6:25am » Quote Modify There was no solution for accentuated characters, only a fix about the % sign.   on Jun 21st, 2007, 1:44pm, towr wrote: And now we can also post % to our hearts content again.   [e]actually, there's still a few strings beginning with % that don't work (like with 00), but I doubt they'll be a problem.[/e] IP Logged Pages: 1  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print Forum Jump: ----------------------------- riddles -----------------------------  - easy   - medium   - hard   - what am i   - what happened   - microsoft   - cs   - putnam exam (pure math) => suggestions, help, and FAQ   - general problem-solving / chatting / whatever ----------------------------- general -----------------------------  - guestbook   - truth   - complex analysis   - wanted   - psychology   - chinese « Previous topic | Next topic »

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