Unprintable characters on LavaG

[LogMAN]

Since a couple of days some pages show strange behavior with unprintable characters. The same pages were fine before. Here are two examples:

http://lavag.org/topic/17783-continuous-measurement-and-logging-redone-with-“messengingâ€-actors/

http://lavag.org/topic/10729-labview-idea-exchange/page-5#entry110225

Is this problem visible to all, or is it just me?

[Neil Pate]

I also see the strange chars, but mine are replaced by a ? glyph/character in chrome

[MikeC3]

Same here, the ? glyph thingy instead of quotes or apostrophes.  Using chrome 36.

[hooovahh]

There was some changes to LavaG a few weeks ago and I suspect one of the changes is how it interprets extended characters.  I noticed the text above my avatar said something like "Just because I don#t care doesn't mean I don#t understand".  I went in and edited my text deleting the bizarre characters and replacing them with the apostrophe and it looks right...other than the fact that it cuts it off which I just noticed. 

 

EDIT: Fixed the cut off.

[Antoine Chalons]

they've crippled my name 

[LogMAN]

Thanks for the feedback guys!
Now to the Moderators/Administrators: Can we expect a solution any time soon? EDIT: Maybe there is something we could help with?
 

  On 7/30/2014 at 2:51 PM, Antoine Ch�ns said:

they've crippled my name 

I can now place funny characters in your name and see what happens if I quote you? You loose even more characters

Edited August 6, 2014 by LogMAN

[hooovahh]

  On 8/6/2014 at 10:45 AM, LogMAN said:

Now to the Moderators/Administrators: Can we expect a solution any time soon? EDIT: Maybe there is something we could help with?

Not sure yet, the issue has been reported and we'll see what we can do.  Again I suspect this is a new way to interpret some characters and the solution will likely be to replace the odd characters with ones the update can display properly.

[Blokk]

Hello!

My first post on LAVA I hope it is ok to revive this thread, since I have similar problem: unicode page text view does not work for special characters in the forum. I did not see such problem for years with any other websites. Any other text code settings, same or worse result. I use the latest Firefox Quantum 57.0.2. I see same problems in Chrome.

Is this my PC, or others can see such issues on the site?

Here is a screenshot attached representing what I see in Firefox:

 

[LogMAN]

  On 12/20/2017 at 6:31 AM, Blokk said:

My first post on LAVA

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Welcome!

  On 12/20/2017 at 6:31 AM, Blokk said:

Is this my PC, or others can see such issues on the site?

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I haven't had issues for the past few years and didn't notice any problems today. The posts in your picture are from 2014, so maybe they weren't fixed during the upgrade. Please post a link to the topic in question, so we can compare.

[drjdpowell]

My posts seem to gather these corruptions whenever the site gets upgraded.   I post from a Mac, and that might be part of the issue.  Seems to be the various types of quote characters.    “Here is a Test” to see what'll happen in future.

Edited December 20, 2017 by drjdpowell

[Blokk]

This was:

I think the "newcomer effect" fooled me, and it really looks like only drjdpowell's posts are effected (and those who quoted his text). So this is not a general problem fortunately   I should have checked more carefully other posts too, but I was too deep in reading this particular post

edit: so more precisely: only drjdpowell's OLD posts are effected (and the correct English word is AFFECTED, I always mix up these )

Edited December 20, 2017 by Blokk

[drjdpowell]

  On 12/20/2017 at 6:56 PM, Blokk said:

the "newcomer effect" fooled

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  On 12/20/2017 at 4:04 PM, drjdpowell said:

“Here is a Test” to see

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Note the difference in the quote marks.  My Mac replaces the generic double quote with starting and ending quotes (which, presumably, are higher Unicode code points).  Your computer (Windows?) does not.  I think these character codes are getting mangled during site upgrade, leading to gibberish.  Does anyone else post from a Mac (and Safari)?

An Edit made from Chrome (same computer): "Test from Chrome"   --> no fancy quotes, so this issue may only affect Safari Users

Edited December 20, 2017 by drjdpowell

[ensegre]

Something fishy is going on here though. Is it me, or some spammer is managing to inject spam links in jrpowell quotes? Hmm, last four messages, single posters to a dead thread.

Edited September 17, 2021 by ensegre

[JKSH]

  On 9/17/2021 at 10:54 AM, ensegre said:

Is it me, or some spammer is managing to inject spam links in jrpowell quotes?

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It's a pretty common spam technique, designed to sneak spam links into innocent-sounding posts.

A moderator should clean out the spam.

[LogMAN]

  On 9/17/2021 at 11:39 AM, JKSH said:

A moderator should clean out the spam.

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The best way is to report posts via the three dots in the upper right corner. That way moderators get notified.

[hooovahh]

  On 9/17/2021 at 12:23 PM, LogMAN said:

The best way is to report posts via the three dots in the upper right corner. That way moderators get notified.

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Yup, thanks for reporting. I saw the post but didn't look close enough at it.

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

I reported all of them last week. Did not notice at first either but in the last post somehow the link sprang in my eyes and I was first thinking it was a special name for quote marks wondering what that word would mean. 😀 Google quickly taught me that it is some drugs name and from there it was obvious. Then looked at the other 3 before that and saw the same pattern together with a pretty meaningless message.