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« on: April 16, 2015, 04:26:31 AM »

Currently my username, "Manuel Magalh?es" (there's an "a" with a tilde in place of the question mark), appears as "Manuel Magalhães". It happens on the most recent, stable versions of both Chrome and Firefox, so I don't think it's a browser issue. While writing this post I have found out it also happens in posts.
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« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2015, 04:27:50 AM »

Yeah I see it too. Just confirming that it's not just him.
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« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2015, 09:08:21 AM »

Board titles, too: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?board=18.0

This is probably what did it. Tweeted back to Matthew with a link to this thread.

Test: Huh???
Edit: The above was originally aeiou with umlauts over each. Turned into question marks when posted.
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« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2015, 02:31:38 AM »

yeah same for me

welp at least the forums seem much faster now. maybe we can get stuff like youtube embedding and other modern features now too?
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« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2015, 05:58:04 AM »

I wanted to change my display name to sch[oumlaut]q to show solidarity until it's fixed, but that gives an error. Changing to a name with no special character works fine.

Also post previews aren't working.
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« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2015, 06:08:27 AM »

d?m
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« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2015, 10:54:03 AM »

Testing database changes: テスト

Edit:  Alright, UTF-8 should be possible across the board now.  Not sure how existing data made the change, so if your username/title/whatever is messed up just re-edit and it should be fine!  Hopefully there aren't a bunch of mangled posts in the archive now Shocked
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« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2015, 11:21:11 AM »

I still have square, how do I upgrade my computer?
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« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2015, 12:58:42 PM »

My username is now fixed and I also see special characters in anywhere else, thanks Matthew!  Hand Thumbs Up Left
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« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2015, 01:02:33 PM »

I still have square, how do I upgrade my computer?
That's odd, in which places do squares appear?
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« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2015, 01:26:19 PM »

not in your name, weird european character works now

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this I can't

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✧My Website✧

This too (opening and ending character)

So I guess I need to update the charset I don't know how to do and how it is called, I don't know where or what to look for that.
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« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2015, 01:30:22 PM »

preview still broken for me though
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« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2015, 01:35:08 PM »

not in your name, weird european character works now

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this I can't

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✧My Website✧

This too (opening and ending character)

So I guess I need to update the charset I don't know how to do and how it is called, I don't know where or what to look for that.

I see Japanese characters in that post, so perhaps your computer doesn't support them, hence the squares. Maybe this solves it for you?

As for my signature, if you see two symbols that look like rotated squares (✧), then it's displaying properly, otherwise I'll have to check it out.
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« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2015, 01:40:32 PM »

üüüüüüüüüüüüü

yup umlauts work again. seems old posts might be permanently messed up tho. my post "d?m" is supposed to read "düm"
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« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2015, 01:45:14 PM »

rotated? like standing on their corner? not at all it's the same square than above!

However this does not solve it there is no fonts settings there, i'm looking in the configuration board to see
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« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2015, 02:09:39 PM »

they look like little stars to me. like this picture:

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« Reply #16 on: April 19, 2015, 02:29:57 PM »

preview still broken for me though

Preview is working for me over here.  What OS/browser are you on (and what behavior are you seeing?)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z0zskbjc0z38hhm/Screenshot%202015-04-19%2015.29.47.png?dl=0
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« Reply #17 on: April 19, 2015, 03:01:57 PM »

Win 7 and Firefox. it just says "Fetching preview..." forever
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« Reply #18 on: April 19, 2015, 03:07:06 PM »

same here. firefox on os x mavericks.
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« Reply #19 on: April 19, 2015, 05:46:00 PM »

seems old posts might be permanently messed up tho. my post "d?m" is supposed to read "düm"

Maybe if we're lucky it's only posts that were made in the last few days while it was broken. Here's a post from April 12th with some non-ASCII characters still intact: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=18560.msg1128978#msg1128978

Preview is working for me over here.  What OS/browser are you on (and what behavior are you seeing?)

Preview works for me (Chrome on OS X), but I noticed that it now loads an entirely new page, whereas before it would be dynamically generated and displayed without leaving the current page. I still see "Fetching preview..." for a moment before it reloads.
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