Hi, there is a special character code showing up in the RSS feed messages: Example: "I think it'#039s bought instead of brought". See also attached Screenshot. I use Thunderbird 102.13.0 (64 bits). Bluesy regards, Bluesy Chris
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0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. Hi, there is a special character code showing up in the RSS feed messages: Example: "I think it'#039s bought instead of brought". See also attached Screenshot. I use Thunderbird 102.13.0 (64 bits). Bluesy regards, Bluesy Chris
Looks like the release you are using is dated July 5, 2023. It is probably a bug that has not been fixed yet. Try Firefox or Chrome and see what you get. It looks like it happens when the underlying code for an apostrophe is not correctly converted to the proper screen font. There are a few message boards that address this problem, although not with Thunderbird 102.13.0. Submit a bug report at the site. Be specific.
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/102.13.0/releasenotes/ Three apostrophes: ' ' ' Hi Stuart,
Since several weeks I don't receive any posts anymore from your feed. In my settings and on your webpage I don't find the address of your feed anymore. Could you please put the link to the feed in your answer ? Thanks in advance and kind regards, Bluesy Chris Hi Bluesy Chris:
I'm somewhat puzzled by your message. I do not have a website and I do not have a feed. I suggest you re-read my original response and contact Thunderbird technical support. Hopefully they can resolve the problem you have been having with their product. Sorry I got confused, I thought I had subscribed to an RSS feed.
It might be useful to provide a guideline on how to subscribe to notifications from the forums on weeniecampbell.com. Kind regards, Bluesy Chris Hi Bluesy Chris:
This is something the behind the scenes tech people here might be able to help you with. I was focusing on the conversion problem and suggesting you try the browsers I use to try to establish a baseline in which there are no conversion problems. This kind of thing can be maddening. With so many steps in the transfer and/or conversion processes all it takes is one step where something doesn't work quite right for a problem to emerge downstream. Here at WC there are a few that show up in older posts from time to time owing to the differences between the outfits that have hosted the Weenie Campbell site over the years. It can be enough to drive an already crazy person insane, but for the IT crowd, it's job security. Sorry I got confused, I thought I had subscribed to an RSS feed. Bluesy Chris – This should be the link to the RSS feed – you can change the "limit" number at the end if you want more: https://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?action=.xml;type=atom;limit=10; I think there might still be some screwy characters in there however; I haven't researched that yet. It took me a while to find the link to the feed! Chris [I think there might still be some screwy characters in there however; I haven't researched that yet. It took me a while to find the link to the feed! banjochris: When Blusey Chris first posted this I did some searching and ran across a few posts on a couple of tech boards where the authors said they had narrowed the identical problem down to a html conversion (I don't remember which one) where there was a glitch with converting the code for the apostrophe and it resulted in the on-screen characters (#039) Bluesy Chris posted. I don't know if this is of any help, but I thought I should at least mention it. Google " #039; html " and see if you get any leads. Here's an example I just found--I don't recall seeing this one the first time: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29928717/my-webpage-display-039-and-not Stuart Sorry I got confused, I thought I had subscribed to an RSS feed. Any Weenie Campbell member can also get a e-mail notification on a topic or specific board you're interested in. You can also set it to automatically activated when you reply to any topic. There's a notify button next to "reply" on every thread. It might go straight to your spam box though so you have to set Weenie Campbell on "safe" in your e-mail set up. [I think there might still be some screwy characters in there however; I haven't researched that yet. It took me a while to find the link to the feed! Thanks Stuart, at some point soon I'll see if I can track it down! Just FYI it has been explained to me that the RSS feed was originally switched off because it caused a lot of bandwidth overage issues, so it is again switched off. On the plus side, no one will have to worry about special characters in the feed not being formatted properly!
Chris Thanks Banjochris. Since the time of the initial post and exchange, I've run across the same problem in different articles at different sites. Usually it appears in older articles I access via an embedded link in a current article. So it's out there and will probably be with us for quite some time. But at least we know it's systemic and not something unique to our individual devices and software.
I see it in forum software all the time, too, Stuart – not just here. Something happens in an upgrade and suddenly quotes and apostrophes go wonky. Probably as the WWW folks get more inclusive with things included in character sets over the years it can mess things up!
Hi Chris:
There's a technical term for it that I can't recall at the moment--It's a cross between legacy code conversion and backward compatability. But anyway, you get the picture. It's probably the case that the real time coversion software can't cover all the bases, so a few items slip through and at times are converted to something other than the original. Stuart the term we use around here is 'farkled' e.g. we upgraded our software and the message base got farkled. Dunno if that is an official term, but it's quite descriptive.
There's a technical term for it that I can't recall at the moment--It's a cross between legacy code conversion and backward compatability. Regression? Hi Slack: "Farkled" appears to be more modern computer slang as opposed to the technical term I was trying to recall. I remember first hearing "farkled" back in the early 70s when it was used to refer to being intoxicated beyond a certain threshold by alcohol, pot, etc. (Taxi lingo: "Yeah, I picked him up at Peewee's and he was totally farkled.") The one used around here back in the 80s and 90s re: computing was "gorked." It was probably borrowed from medical usage. "The program gorked my system," etc.
Hi Rivers: "Regression" isn't the tech term I'm trying to recall. Several years ago I was sitting next to a person during a talk and she mentioned she was moving from old fashioned information management to "smarter" software, more akin to what we refer to as AI. The challenge was trying to get all of the material that had been entered and saved in various formats over the years to be retrievable and read without the original embedded code causing problems, like the one we were discussing here. I mentioned that back in the day there were a few programs (aka "utilities") we used to make working between files from different word processing software easier. Some of you might recall Systems Compatibility Corporation's "Outside In" and "Software Bridge," along with Lotus "Magellan." That's when she told me the technical term for what she was working on. ("It's now referred to as___.") It appears that 30+ years later their fundamentals in evolved form are still available in specialty software. I still have a 386 DOS 6.22 / Windows 3.1 PC from the early 90s that I occasionally use to convert files from back in the day to current file formats for friends in Academia. (If floppies were casino chips...) --But I digress, as always... Anyway, I'll keep rattling the cage that my remaining little gray cells reside in. Maybe something coherent will surface. Accidents do happen, you know.
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