Mainpage encoding is wrong

I get those shapes on Firefox under Win 2k... so at least your not crazy... in this instance...

 

Thanks for the info - we'll look into it

 

Maybe related but when i click on a posting from the main page and then click back to the home page the font changes.

Never happens with any other web-site.

Win 2000 Pro
Win Ex 6.02

 

Good sleuthing - I'll follow up with the folks who can change those settings and we'll see what we can do.

 

Bien sûr.

 

Why do you say that? I don't seem to have any problem. (Unless you mean typing in Hangul.)

Squire

 

Although reported twice after this thread in 2005, this is still a bug that I came across today (after 4.5 years!). Looks like it's the same too - the forum text is ISO 8859-1 (ISO Latin 1) but the front page is set to UTF-8. Manually overriding the encoding in both Safari and Firefox fixes it.

Example:

 

I get the same thing too sometimes. I always thought it was just a Firefox bug.

Do you want us to post here if we see the same thing again? (with browser version and webpage / post URL?

 

I don't think it's necessary. It's a recurring bug that will continue to show up until it's fixed. It's an encoding issue with the text, not browser/OS.

 

I've seen this issue too on occasion.

 

Character Encoding of MacRumors.com

Hi guys,

I have to use a PC at work and whenever I see items with quotation marks, Firefox at least gives it the unknown Unicode character symbol. I have tried several different encodings to no avail.

What am missing? Can something be done to correct this, as this is pretty much the only site I have seen in a long while where I get unknown character symbols (I even installed all of the foreign language packs just so I don't get unknown char/boxes/weird symbols!)

Example:

isn’t ​

I hope copy/paste will actually work.

On a side note, you guys should register MacRumours.com and redirect it here.

Cheers,

Jon

PS- After posting it seemed copy/pasting "corrected" the issue at hand, however, on the main page view I get the problem using FF. I haven't checked yet using IE, Safari, Opera, Chrome, etc.

PPS- In fact I haven't even been to this site on my Mac since I do all of my reading at work where I have more "downtime"! ;-)

 

I believe MacRumors uses UTF-8. If your browser is set to something other than Unicode (UTF-8) for MacRumors, that may explain the character problems.

 

I am indeed using UTF-8.


Character Encoding Settings


Example of the problem at hand

 

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=93058

Apparently it's because the forums use a different char encoding to the mainpage.

I've only noticed this in the recent forum posts on the right column, but never in the news column.

 

Previous Thread Locked For No Reason

I was brought to this thread and apparently the mods thought it fit to lock it in a unresolved state. Which I think is unfair and was done with too much haste and with the lack of thought.

Regardless, I will add to this thread instead.



Changing the character encoding to ISO-1859-1 did jack squat.



However, not all quotes seem to have the problem, regardless of their character encodings.