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Is there a glitch in the new software that doesn't do accents?

Started by Grun, November 20, 2009, 07:42:16 PM

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Grun

Basically I can't seem to log in under my name, "Grünfeld"  -- when this sort of problem occurs it's usually the umlaut which is causing the grief.

Any way to fix it?  If that's the issue.


Oli

jeff

I'll check the settings. I did see (when it did the upgrade) that it converted
character sets from CHAR255 to UTF something or another. Perhaps that's
the root of the problem.

jeff
"I felt like Shaq at the free throw line"

Mike

I think UTF-8 is the most common nowadays.  It can handle all languages, but some people might still be using one of the other character encodings.

UTF-8 is basically ASCII when the highest bit is off, then mostly multi-byte when the highest bit is on.

In Firefox, you can set it under Tools->Options->Content->Fonts and colors->advanced->character encoding.  There is a similar setting in IE8 somewhere.
Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.  (G. K. Chesterton)

rolo95


the U with the 2 little dots to spell the name grunfield... is not on the standard 7 bit ASCII table
but on the extended one that needs 8 bits...

we got the same problem here on our closed caption system as we need to output spanish accents

all those are on the 128+ table of codes... all the 5 vowels  a e i o u, plus ñ and Ã'
are in the 128+ area... plus grunfield also letters


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