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Elfen_Furry · Moderator Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 2601 Location: NYC NY

1) Since PF has came back, on about a majority of my posts, I have been noticing an extraenous character popping up at the end. If I try to edit out the character and repost- the character returns.

I'm using Mac OS 9/Netscape 4 or 5 or 6, depending on th e time of day.

2) I'm noticing that when I go visit the hosted websites (including mine), the url sometimes pops up as:
planetfurry.com/user/[name of hosted site]

though my old bookmark links which have ../~[name of hosted site] still works.dds

Tygon · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 12:20 am Post subject:

Hmmm... interesting. I didn't quite notice it but it's true, the individual sites have planetfurry.com/user/[name of hosted site] as URL, but the old version still works.

Nite · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 1:14 am Post subject:

Make it three things, I'd rather not create another thread for a tiny bug.

I just noticed Mike's forum is labeled "raccoon?s bookshelf" - looking at the raw HTML, the question mark is replaced by a "´", so I don't know if this is simply a local browser quirk or not.

Whip-lash · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 2:12 am Post subject:

Could you attach a screenshot containing the extraneous character you are talking about, Elfen? Has anyone else noticed this problem?

Concerning the strange character replacing ' and " characters, I am aware of this and am working on a fix. The problem is with the character encoding. If you view the page/source in Unicode (UTF-8), the "question mark" characters show up. If you view it in Western (ISO-8895-1), the characters show up as normal.

As far as the different user site URL's, I wasn't aware of the change in the new version, but I will go through my sources to make sure it isn't another issue. More than likely, the /user/username is now the master URL, and the /~username is just an alias/redirect. Personally, I think both ways are good. Both are a used standard, though the ~username is one I've seen more often.

Whip-lash · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 2:54 pm Post subject:

Elfen_Furry · Moderator Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 2601 Location: NYC NY

Whip, thanks for the attention to this.

Here is a screen shot (of this very thread) with those extraneous characters popping up on my postings. Its hi-lited in Reddish Pink.

Whip-lash · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 4:42 pm Post subject:

It looks like it's a random set of characters that hit your posts. I'm wondering if it may be an issue with Safari... Have you tried any other browser? (Firefox, IE, etc.)

Is it possible for you to send me a tcpdump of what is happening when you post a message through Safari? Programs like Ethereal (specific ports for Mac OS X available here and here) will let you capture network packets, which I could then determine if the extra characters are coming from your browser or from some other source. I'm willing to bet it's coming from Safari, though.

If you need help running Ethereal, let me know and I'll walk you through setting up a simple capture.

Elfen_Furry · Moderator Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 2601 Location: NYC NY

That only happens on my home Mac, which is OS9 and Netscape.

I dont use IE (for obvious reasons).

Work machines which are OSX/Safari dont have this problem.n

Nameless · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 12:52 am Post subject:

I did see a few "?" characters at the end of a post.

I use Opera on Win98SE.

Whip-lash · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:02 pm Post subject:

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Whip-lash · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:47 pm Post subject:

Elfen_Furry · Moderator Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 2601 Location: NYC NY

Whip-lash · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:17 pm Post subject:

Ugh. Not this again. Sad

I should have it fixed shortly.

Whip-lash · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:25 pm Post subject:

Okay, the default charset has been switched back to ISO-8859-1 (was UTF-8). I've tested a few pages that had "bad" characters, and they appear to look okay now.