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ODD SYMBOLS NOW for Spanish letters á é í ó ú ñ ü on existing(older) posts that were't there before?

David K - 2-16-2017 at 09:39 AM

Please provide a solution for the ASC codes for foreign letters and other symbols in our existing threads that have been changed to little black diamonds with question marks in them.

á é í ó ú ñ ü ° Á É ¿ ¡ Ü

See a post from before Nomad server crash:
Quote: Originally posted by David K  
An incredible trip of 10 days that included great weather (a bit cold at night), great Baja Nomads, some I met for the first time, and great but rough dirt roads. I went to many missions and visita sites. Here is a list:

San Ignacio, Muleg�, San Juan Lond�, Loreto, Lig��, San Javier, El Horno, San Jos� de Comond� (1736 site), San Miguel (Comond�), La Pur�sima, Comond� Viejo (1708 site), and San Borja.


[Edited on 2-16-2017 by David K]

Udo - 2-16-2017 at 11:56 AM

If you have a Mac, those symbols are included in the keyboard by holding down the character key. The options will then appear.

Other than that, you may go to the website: http://www.academic.evergreen.edu/projects/biophysics/techno...

Udo - 2-16-2017 at 11:59 AM

BTW...the ascii code for degree is 188 and on a Mac is <op>0 (as in zero)

David K - 2-16-2017 at 01:50 PM

I have no problem posting them Udo, it is that the old posts with those letters are now showing them as error marks (a black diamond with a question mark in it. Just look at my first post in my new trip report.

I was alerting Doug so he could correct that.

Here that is:
Quote:
An incredible trip of 10 days that included great weather (a bit cold at night), great Baja Nomads, some I met for the first time, and great but rough dirt roads. I went to many missions and visita sites. Here is a list:

San Ignacio, Muleg�, San Juan Lond�, Loreto, Lig��, San Javier, El Horno, San Jos� de Comond� (1736 site), San Miguel (Comond�), La Pur�sima, Comond� Viejo (1708 site), and San Borja.

I traveled most of the known roads to the beaches between Santa Rosal�a and Ensenada Blanca (below Loreto) and the rough roads between San Javier and Comond�, on to La Pur�sima and back east to Hwy. 1.








[Edited on 2-16-2017 by David K]

Udo - 2-16-2017 at 04:53 PM

I see the problem. I was not aware of that.

geoffff - 2-16-2017 at 05:14 PM

It's definitely a screw-up in the website configuration. All the non-ASCII characters are being converted to that "�" character before being shown. Even copyright symbols on the main page are showing incorrectly. http://forums.bajanomad.com/

So I don't think the posts themselves are corrupted in the database, it is some higher-level website misconfiguration.

-- Geoff

David K - 2-16-2017 at 05:16 PM

Well, this kind of thing happened last time Doug rebooted the site, as I recall. He can fix it (I hope).

BajaNomad - 2-17-2017 at 10:42 PM

Get to it when I can. Thank you for your understanding and patience.

:saint:

David K - 2-17-2017 at 10:59 PM

Thank you, Doug.

I edited my first post in my trip report replacing the black diamonds with the Spanish accented letters. But, I imagine there is 15 years of other posts that need the fix?

[Edited on 2-18-2017 by David K]