That was going to be my original thought, but when I looked at the files what I saw seemed to match with what I posted. I commented out the line that was having it encode as UTF-8, but it still rendered as that on my Firefox. I think there were a few changes to the browser that affected this too.
On 7/19/2015 10:12 AM, Alex Green wrote: > To me, it seems the issue is one of character encoding. The browser > expects the data to be encoded as UTF-8, but it's actually being sent > as iso-8859-1. If you have Firefox, go to view -> character encoding, > and select western. The page renders as it's supposed to. > > That's not to say that the line breaks shouldn't be there, but they've > always been there. Removing them will make most of the diamonds > disappear, but there are characters like the apostrophes that still > won't render correctly. > > I'm not sure what could have changed to cause this. Most likely the > configurations for the web server have changed so that now the server > is serving pages as UTF-8 where it use to be serving them as > iso-8859-1. Although, when I look through the HTML, I see two separate > meta tags. The first sets the character set as iso-8859-1, and the > second changes it to UTF-8. Removing that second meta tag might fix > the issue, but I don't have enough practical experience with HTML to > know for sure. > > -AlexSurikat > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Andrew Vineyard > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I've taken a look at the files. Apparently the files were uploaded > with line breaks where there aren't suppose to. That's what is > causing the issues. To give a good example, when I'm looking at > the file, I'm seeing that instead of having everything between the > <p> </p> on the same line, where you see the "?" is where there's > a line break in the file. It'll be a big task to fix it all, do to > the complexity. > > > On 7/19/2015 6:25 AM, C. Matthias wrote: >> I have a different issue with the Metamor Keep Archive. >> >> It appears that a lot of the stories are showing various special >> characters as diamonds with "?" inside them. This is extremely >> off-putting and renders stories difficult to read. I suspect >> some of them are quote characters, en-dashes, and so forth. This >> is showing up with both FireFox and Safari. It is especially bad >> in my story Inchoate Carillon, Inconstant Cuckold. >> >> Somebody definitely ought to take a look into that! It wasn't at >> all like this two weeks ago the last time I checked. >> >> May He bless you and keep you in His grace and love, >> >> Charles Matthias >> >> At 03:13 PM 7/18/2015, Virmir wrote: >>> Hello! >>> >>> Yes, that was merely a google custom search page. I'm sure the >>> syntax has changed throughout the years. It looks like the >>> service is still offered, so it's probably just a matter of >>> setting up a new one. https://cse.google.com/cse/ >>> >>> Regarding the domain, I do own and pay for metamorkeep.com >>> <http://metamorkeep.com>. This is no big deal since it is a >>> pittance, however if someone else more active in the community >>> would like to take up ownership, I certainly wouldn't have any >>> problem with that (I have like seven of these things anyway). >>> Whoever takes it would have to promise to be super attentive and >>> pay the bill on time to avoid a transform.to >>> <http://transform.to> situation though. ;) >>> >>> Somewhat related--I actually have the domain pointing to my >>> nameservers before it goes to Xepher. This gives us a little >>> more control in case people have their own sites or blogs and >>> want to use a subdomain or something. E.g. >>> mishablogsaboutmuffins.metamorkeep.com >>> <http://mishablogsaboutmuffins.metamorkeep.com> >>> >>> On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Alex Green >>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> The first problem Chris mentioned was a php error. A >>> variable, Counter, was being accessed before it had been >>> defined. I haven't run into it, so it looks like whatever >>> caused it has gone away for now. >>> >>> The second problem is that the search feature provided by >>> Google has stopped working. I haven't been able to figure >>> this one out. At first glance, it appears there is a lot of >>> stuff in the search URL that shouldn't be there, but even >>> after deleting it and trying to manually rerun it, the error >>> persists. In that case, the reason it failed might be that >>> the account that the search feature was tied to has been >>> deleted, but this is all conjecture as I am totally >>> unfamiliar with how Google's custom search feature works. >>> >>> It might be worth it to ask Virmir about this one as he set >>> it up and might remember how to do it again. >>> >>> P.S. I find it funny that both Chris and my test searches >>> were related as we both searched for or respective species. >>> -AlexSurikat >>> >>> On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Andrew Vineyard >>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > >>> wrote: >>> >>> I'm looking at the site, but I'm not seeing anything >>> wrong with it. I'm getting access to it and everything. >>> It may have been a slight hiccup in the server engine. >>> I'll still look into it and see what might be the >>> problem, but it appears that whatever was happening was >>> simply a connection error. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MKGuild mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild >>> <http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MKGuild mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild >>> <http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> -  Virmir | http://virmir.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MKGuild mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild >>> <http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MKGuild mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild > > > _______________________________________________ > MKGuild mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild > >
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