Looking at the page source.

bluestarultor · 05-18-2010, 07:44 PM

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">


<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head>

<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 �, �, �, � 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

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Originally Posted by POS Industries

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

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Originally Posted by bluestarultor

So someone promote me to admin and I'll fix it. :P

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synkr0nized · 05-22-2010, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by rpgdemon

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.

***Fenris*** · 05-20-2010, 04:22 PM

05-19-2010, 10:44 AM	#2
shiney Derrrrrrrrrrrrrp. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The land of fartz and buttz Posts: 8,266	UTF-8 is already on the server, I will look into messing around with the header there. __________________ boop

05-19-2010, 10:54 AM	#3
shiney Derrrrrrrrrrrrrp. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The land of fartz and buttz Posts: 8,266	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 �, �, �, � blah blah should work properly now. __________________ boop

05-19-2010, 09:38 PM	#5
rpgdemon Not a Taco Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 3,313	As an aside: Is there any particular reason the stylesheet isn't being linked to, and instead sitting on top of every page? __________________ I did a lot of posting on here as a teenager, and I was pretty awful. Even after I learned, grew up, and came to be on the right side of a lot of important issues, I was still angry, abrasive, and generally increased the amount of hate in the world, in pretty unacceptable ways. On the off chance that someone is taking a trip down memory lane looking through those old threads, I wanted to devote my signature to say directly to you, I'm sorry. Thank you for letting me be better, NPF.

05-20-2010, 03:30 PM	#6
POS Industries Argus Agony Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Gotta go fishing! Posts: 10,483	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. __________________ Either you're dead or my watch has stopped.

05-20-2010, 04:22 PM	#10
*Fenris* Administrator Join Date: May 2005 Location: East Coast Posts: 6,806	__________________ "FENRIS IS AN ASSHOLE" - shiney