Fix your signatures.

[Ted S.]

Noticed this a couple days ago. Maybe it's just showing messed up on Firefox/Linux, but I've noticed my signature and others have additional characters that weren't there before and may even degrade the messages.

[Oh Shoot]

Using latest FireFox for Winders, 34.0.5, I don't see anything wrong with your sig (or maybe you've "fixed" it, dunno).

 

I did notice one of my posts had the quote marks I had used converted to some weird ASCII or Unicode symbol (wasn't HTML code). I thought is was maybe just something odd with IP Board stuff, "fixed" it by simply editing and retyping the quotes, still shows okay.

 

But may well be something wonky with latest FF, as all of a sudden LexisNexis TN Code doesn't work with it, gives "Content Encoding Error" soon as you accept the terms on opening page.

 

- OS

 

edit: this should probably be moved to Feedback and Support forum

Edited January 4, 2015 by Oh Shoot

[TGO David]

I hadn't noticed anything unusual but this may have been caused by the recent database conversion.  The new database format uses UTF8 character encoding, which may not mean anything to the layperson, but does mean that certain characters previously supported are not supported now.

[Ted S.]

Eh, didn't want it in Feedback and Support forum since it's a really easy fix for anyone. But if it it belongs there, oh well. :)

[TGO David]

I moved it but left a re-direct in the general chat forum.  That way folks can still find it pretty easily.

[Garufa]

I hadn't noticed anything unusual but this may have been caused by the recent database conversion.  The new database format uses UTF8 character encoding, which may not mean anything to the layperson, but does mean that certain characters previously supported are not supported now.

 

Like on the home page under "Welcome to Tennessee Gun Owners"?  ;)

[TGO David]

Like on the home page under "Welcome to Tennessee Gun Owners"?  ;)

 

I'm not seeing it?

[Garufa]

I'm not seeing it?

 

Might have to log out then check the homepage....at least that's when I see that particular module.  There's jibberish around the "Join TGO now" link.

[TGO David]

Yeah, found it.  Thanks for the heads up... I'm never not signed-in so I had no idea.  :)

[Oh Shoot]

Eh, didn't want it in Feedback and Support forum since it's a really easy fix for anyone. But if it it belongs there, oh well. :)

 

So, what is this easy fix? And what in a sig makes it go wonky to begin with? Mine look normal? (it does to me)

Edited January 4, 2015 by Oh Shoot

[Ted S.]

So, what is this easy fix? And what in a sig makes it go wonky to begin with? Mine look normal? (it does to me)

 

My signature had a few extra characters around the quotations and punctuation, as well as the umlaut in the one word in Tolstoy's quote. Easy fix because I just had to delete the extra characters, and readd the "ä".

[Oh Shoot]

My signature had a few extra characters around the quotations and punctuation, as well as the umlaut in the one word in Tolstoy's quote. Easy fix because I just had to delete the extra characters, and readd the "ä".

 

In Nietzche one actually, :)

 

That's what I did with the quote characters that went wonky in a post. Just happened to have noticed it as was re-reading last page of a thread.

 

Still wonder if it's not a FireFox specific interaction, though. The LexisNexis failure just appeared very recently too.

 

- OS

Edited January 4, 2015 by Oh Shoot

[Ted S.]

In Nietzche one actually, :)

 

That's what I did with the quote characters that went wonky in a post. Just happened to have noticed it as was re-reading last page of a thread.

 

Still wonder if it's not a FireFox specific interaction, though. The LexisNexis failure just appeared very recently too.

 

- OS

 

:wall:  Don't know how I confused to the two, damn foreigners! (May be that Tolstoy had at least one of his books published in German first: "Das Himmelreich in euch" [never read nor quoted from] so may have been a massive brain fart.)

 

It may be just Firefox, dunno. I don't have or use other browsers.

[NextExit]

Might be Firefox.  I've been having some weird issues when using Firefox lately so I've gone back to using Safari.

[Fourtyfive]

Like mine ?

[Oh Shoot]

Like mine ?

 

Yup.

 

I had similar in the body of a thread response, not in sig. Maybe there's lots of them now for all I know, not gonna spend time to look back around and see.

 

- OS