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bluestarultor
05-18-2010, 07:44 PM
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: FORUMDISPLAY -->

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head>
<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: headinclude -->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin 3.8.5" />


Why on Earth is this stuck all the way back in 1997? Wouldn't UTF-8 be more appropriate? Could changing it to UTF-8 even fix our current accent woes? Or given that it's generated, might it be an issue where UTF-8 would need to go on the server?



Edit: Let me just be clear that these are all serious questions. I'd never even heard of the current standard and had to wiki it. I'm suggesting UTF-8 because that's what I was taught to use and that it's apparently the default for pretty much everything. On the other hand, I'm a programmer, not a network specialist, so I just know how to write things for existing systems, not how to get a server up and running.
shiney
05-19-2010, 10:44 AM
UTF-8 is already on the server, I will look into messing around with the header there.
shiney
05-19-2010, 10:54 AM
Double post because I'm a jackass:

I never thought I'd say this, but, well done bluesy. That was our problem. Looks like unrecognized characters such as é, «, ª, ¬ blah blah should work properly now.
Ecks
05-19-2010, 06:04 PM
Whoa, nice catch there blues... my next LP update will probably be thanking your good eye... as it had a few oddball characters in it. Unfortunately, that probably won't be up until tomorrow... but thanks, blues and shiney.
rpgdemon
05-19-2010, 09:38 PM
As an aside: Is there any particular reason the stylesheet isn't being linked to, and instead sitting on top of every page?
POS Industries
05-20-2010, 03:30 PM
Just a note: Shiney tried out your advice and broke one of the threads in the mod forum and is blaming it on me so THANKS A FUCKING LOT BLUES.
bluestarultor
05-20-2010, 04:12 PM
Just a note: Shiney tried out your advice and broke one of the threads in the mod forum and is blaming it on me so THANKS A FUCKING LOT BLUES.

So someone promote me to admin and I'll fix it. :P
Just kidding, of course. If it's really a problem, I can take a look at the page source if someone gets it to me.
Fenris
05-20-2010, 04:14 PM
So someone promote me to admin and I'll fix it. :P

<-
bluestarultor
05-20-2010, 04:19 PM
<-

Aww, Fenris! You'll be my sponsor? How kind of you! ^_^
Fenris
05-20-2010, 04:22 PM
http://www.nuklearforums.com/image.php?u=7041&dateline=1273537842
bluestarultor
05-20-2010, 04:26 PM
http://www.nuklearforums.com/image.php?u=7041&dateline=1273537842

In case you missed it:

So someone promote me to admin and I'll fix it. :P
Just kidding, of course. If it's really a problem, I can take a look at the page source if someone gets it to me. (<- this)

I'm joking. You can breathe again. ;)
Fenris
05-20-2010, 04:41 PM
I saw it the first time.

http://www.nuklearforums.com/image.php?u=7041&dateline=1273537842
shiney
05-20-2010, 04:45 PM
Me breaking the forums had nothing to do with blues, everything to do with Meister, and everything to do with FUCK YOU POS.
POS Industries
05-20-2010, 04:46 PM
I WILL SEE YOU IN HELL WHEN I DRAG YOU DOWN WITH ME

But no for realz I'm okay with blaming Meister. It's a victimless crime, really.
bluestarultor
05-20-2010, 04:52 PM
I saw it the first time.

http://www.nuklearforums.com/image.php?u=7041&dateline=1273537842

Humor in absurdity. ;)
Nikose Tyris
05-21-2010, 02:19 AM
But no for realz I'm okay with blaming Meister. It's a victimless crime, really.

Actually I think overall it's really Fenris' fault. Because "Fuck Fenris" sounds better.
shiney
05-21-2010, 09:47 AM
Keep your secret fantasies to yourself there, Nikose.
greed
05-21-2010, 10:11 AM
..... secret?
shiney
05-21-2010, 10:33 AM
Touché.

Keep your obvious and slightly disturbing fantasies to yourself there, Nikose.
synkr0nized
05-22-2010, 09:57 AM
As an aside: Is there any particular reason the stylesheet isn't being linked to, and instead sitting on top of every page?

It's how vBulletin generates pages. It pulls the style information and generates it on each page when a client asks for one while also pulling the relevant information (posts, user info, etc.) from the database. The themes for a forum engine such as vBulletin define these styles and can be modified similar to using a separate CSS, so while it looks cluttered when viewing the source the actual handling of it is more or less the same.



I honestly thought when the accent issue was first brought up we knew to be looking at the character encoding. Whelp.