It's not exactly what I'd call a fix. The site should be readable by the end user without them having to do anything out of the ordinary.
-AlexSurikat On Jul 19, 2015 3:51 PM, "C. Matthias" <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, I gave that a try and it worked. Weird! Thanks for letting me know > how to fix it. > > May He bless you and keep you in His grace and love, > > Charles Matthias > > At 11:12 AM 7/19/2015, 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 <<mailto: >> [email protected]>[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/>https://cse.google.com/cse/ >>>> >>>> Regarding the domain, I do own and pay for >>>> <http://metamorkeep.com>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 <http://transform.to>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. <http://mishablogsaboutmuffins.metamorkeep.com> >>>> mishablogsaboutmuffins.metamorkeep.com >>>> >>>> On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Alex Green <<mailto: >>>> [email protected]>[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 <<mailto: >>>> [email protected]>[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 >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >>>> http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> MKGuild mailing list >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >>>> http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> -  Virmir | <http://virmir.com>http://virmir.com >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> MKGuild mailing list >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >>>> http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> MKGuild mailing list >>> >>> <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >>> >>> http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MKGuild mailing list >> <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] >> http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MKGuild mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild >> > >
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