What is this little � symbol I keep seeing everywhere? Is this a browser issue or a site issue? I'm using Firefox, the same Firefox I've been using for the last year, but it's only just been recently that I've started seeing these little question-mark-in-diamond symbols everywhere throughout people's posts.
Here's a thread that's just peppered with them: link.
Here's the third paragraph in the thread as my browser is displaying it:
A second note: If at anytime your lil� heart yearns to see the actual Japanese for these spells or tools I suggest the following: Sneakiness Unveiled! On this site you can also see the tool names: click on the spell and it will expand, after �comments� there are four characters (they read �Shinobi Dougu� or �Ninja Tool,� hmmm�). After those four characters is a colon, some squiggly stuff then a cute lil� circle that looks like a period. The squiggly stuff is the kanji for the ninja tool. If you want to see slightly more readable kanji (and a whole pile of other spells� names in Japanese) Go here: Long list...
If this is a site issue I figure Dana's probably the person to ask. But if it's not a site issue, does anyone else reading this thread know what the heck is going on with my Allakhazam enjoying experience? o.O
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It could be a language pack problem on your PC or the servers. For example, if someone is typing in something like Japanese and you don't have the language pack installed, OR the servers don't, you will see all these wierd symbols.
Other then that I can't think of anything... Oh, also, those are just square boxes for me... So it makes me think that that could be it even more.
Edit: hit post too soon
Edited, Mon May 23 01:42:48 2005 by Tomec
Other then that I can't think of anything... Oh, also, those are just square boxes for me... So it makes me think that that could be it even more.
Edit: hit post too soon
Edited, Mon May 23 01:42:48 2005 by Tomec
I looked at the thread and didn't see them, though I do see them in your post.
I believe it has something to do with the encoding method used by your browser.
I don't know anything about Firefox, but in IE you can chage the encoding so that japanese text will be displayed as such (with the proper langauge packs installed), rather than a string of nonsensical ascii stuff, of which those boxes are a common part.
Edited, Mon May 23 03:59:41 2005 by Tenmiles
I believe it has something to do with the encoding method used by your browser.
I don't know anything about Firefox, but in IE you can chage the encoding so that japanese text will be displayed as such (with the proper langauge packs installed), rather than a string of nonsensical ascii stuff, of which those boxes are a common part.
Edited, Mon May 23 03:59:41 2005 by Tenmiles
In both IE and Firefox you can change the Character Encoding to "Western (ISO-8859-1)" and it'll show the page correctly, but the real problem is that as soon as you change pages it reverts back to Unicode and if you re-visit the page you have to re-set the encoding again. I've tried setting the default encoding in Firefox's options page and clearing the cache but neither helps.
I get it every now and then too, it mostly happens when some sync is off on the servers.
Well, I've been getting it CONSTANTLY, and always in the place of punctuation. It's not doing it in IE, so it appears to be a Firefox issue. If the problem is with the site itself, I figured you guys would want to know so you can make allakhazam compatible with Firefox. If the problem is with the latest version of Firefox to come out... well, there's not much I can do about that except to uninstall and reinstall an older build. Either way, it's incredibly distracting and makes certain posts very hard to read, so I thought I'd best bring it to your attention. Thanks Haggan. =)
Edit: While it isn't doing it in IE, in that link I gave in my first post in this thread, IE *IS* giving me question marks in the place of all of that punctuation. Here's an example from that same paragraph:
A second note: If at anytime your lil? heart yearns to see the actual Japanese for these spells or tools I suggest the following: Sneakiness Unveiled! On this site you can also see the tool names: click on the spell and it will expand, after ?comments? there are four characters (they read ?Shinobi Dougu? or ?Ninja Tool,? hmmm?). After those four characters is a colon, some squiggly stuff then a cute lil? circle that looks like a period. The squiggly stuff is the kanji for the ninja tool. If you want to see slightly more readable kanji (and a whole pile of other spells? names in Japanese) Go here: Long list...
Edited, Mon May 23 22:02:22 2005 by Saboruto
Edit: While it isn't doing it in IE, in that link I gave in my first post in this thread, IE *IS* giving me question marks in the place of all of that punctuation. Here's an example from that same paragraph:
A second note: If at anytime your lil? heart yearns to see the actual Japanese for these spells or tools I suggest the following: Sneakiness Unveiled! On this site you can also see the tool names: click on the spell and it will expand, after ?comments? there are four characters (they read ?Shinobi Dougu? or ?Ninja Tool,? hmmm?). After those four characters is a colon, some squiggly stuff then a cute lil? circle that looks like a period. The squiggly stuff is the kanji for the ninja tool. If you want to see slightly more readable kanji (and a whole pile of other spells? names in Japanese) Go here: Long list...
Edited, Mon May 23 22:02:22 2005 by Saboruto
It is the encoding the person chose to post in.
The " are not standard, they are “ †special open and close quotes and generally do not display properly on Unicode beacuse it seems the code is different to display these characters between western and unicode.
BTW: I broke them so they display in Unicode but not in western to help make the point
Edited, Tue May 24 08:52:16 2005 by Bakkasan
Quote:
“comments†there are four characters (they read “Shinobi Dougu†or “Ninja Tool,†hmmm…)
The " are not standard, they are “ †special open and close quotes and generally do not display properly on Unicode beacuse it seems the code is different to display these characters between western and unicode.
BTW: I broke them so they display in Unicode but not in western to help make the point
Edited, Tue May 24 08:52:16 2005 by Bakkasan
It means that the fontset your browser is using to render the text in is missing, or misinterpreting various symbols.
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