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FadaÃ*/accent problem returns

  • 07-08-2017 11:25PM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    For the past few days the problem with using fadaí and accents has re-emerged: the letter upon which the accent is disappears. It is not consistently happening this time, however, but it is recurrently happening. I just spelt régime and it came out rgime (I edited and reposted the same accent over the e and it came out perfectly). It even appears correct in the preview but appears on the site with the letters missing.
    I'll try these:

    Seán
    Áine
    Éamonn
    éire
    Iníon
    INÍON
    Úna
    achoimriú
    Ó Dónaill
    órbhuí
    d'être


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  • #2
    Boards.ie: Mark
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    Issue seems to arise if you go to edit a post that had accents in it...and possibly in titles. Going to be looking at this again this week. Thanks for raising this.

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  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Just noticed in this post where I wrote 'with the whole Sinn Féin and...' it came out as 'with the whole Sinn F and...' (and I went back to double check and I did write Sinn Féin.) Not sure why three letters are now being lost.


  • #4
    Boards.ie: Mark
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    It could be a breakdown between the receiving of the data and the saving of it to the database. Proving to be a bit of a headache.

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  • #5
    h57xiucj2z946q
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    Most likely this is a ISO-8859-1 to/from UTF-8 character conversion issue. It's best to keep it all consistent, ideally UTF-8. However that may not be practical if historically the DB had a different character set.


  • #6
    Boards.ie: Mark
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    That is indeed the issue. We hope to have a fix live soon.

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  • #7
    Boards.ie: Mark
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    We've rolled out a fix, so hopefully all should be right with accents again. But please highlight any instances if they reappear so we can create a log.

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  • #8
    Worztron
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    Boards.ie: Mark wrote: »
    We've rolled out a fix, so hopefully all should be right with accents again. But please highlight any instances if they reappear so we can create a log.

    Issue is still here or at least has returned: https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057833863

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  • #9
    Boards.ie: Mark
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    I've tried both Chrome and Firefox, but can't replicate. What version of Firefox are you using? Can you clear your cache and cookies please to see if that helps? Or try a different browser.

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  • #10
    Worztron
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    Boards.ie: Mark wrote: »
    I've tried both Chrome and Firefox, but can't replicate. What version of Firefox are you using? Can you clear your cache and cookies please to see if that helps? Or try a different browser.

    Hi Mark. I'm using Firefox ESR 52.6.0. I tried both that and Chromium (latest version) in fresh profiles. Both are not showing the full Irish word.

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