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To: Signalman

Sorry, my post contains a lot of those weird special characters. Never happened before.

Could the problem be with FR?


3 posted on 10/29/2015 11:12:42 AM PDT by Signalman
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4 posted on 10/29/2015 11:13:46 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo
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To: Signalman

Seems to be in text that is copied and pasted.


19 posted on 10/29/2015 11:32:06 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Signalman

I’m having severe problems with FR page generetion, and improper HTML characters.

I have to refresh every page after loading it.
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42 posted on 10/29/2015 1:00:18 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Signalman

“Sorry, my post contains a lot of those weird special characters.
Never happened before.
Could the problem be with FR?”

After the issue with the red Attack Warning page now we get this.

I believe Free Republic is being attacked by vengeful libtards.

This HTML character issue started with me yesterday afternoon.

I get them on the main forum page, on some of the individual article pages as well as on some of my posts.

I’m not getting the problem on any other sites.

Maybe one of the techy Freepers can tell us what is causing it.


58 posted on 10/29/2015 2:26:45 PM PDT by Iron Munro (<p> The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Signalman
Sorry, my post contains a lot of those weird special characters. Never happened before.

Could the problem be with FR?

It should work.

Those are curly quotes, e.g.,

“refugees”

The page is supposedly encoded in UTF-8. Curly quotes require three bytes each in UTF-8 (in hex: e2 80 9c and e2 80 9d). A browser rendering UTF-8 should show those triplets as the left and right curly quote characters, respectively.

However, if you look at the page source, what you see is not the above hex, but instead HTML entities corresponding to the three bytes of each triplet:

Muslim &acirc;&#128;&#156;refugees&acirc;&#128;&#157; that are

It appears to be an FR bug. The server is translating individual bytes outside the 7-bit ASCII range to the corresponding HTML entities, resulting in the garbage we are seeing. It should leave them alone and let the browser render them correctly — something browsers have been capable of doing for some years now.

This bug is a recent development. For instance, you now get garbage if you post Russian:

Путин instead of Путин.

Posting Russian (or pretty much anything else) always used to work fine.


85 posted on 10/29/2015 6:27:01 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Signalman
Could the problem be with FR?

It is. Management is aware of the issue and trying to resolve it.

106 posted on 10/30/2015 2:43:52 PM PDT by Drew68
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