Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
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+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).
Unfortunately, I've been unable to find any such extensions for Safari, Opera, or Internet Explorer. The latter had the functionality baked into older versions, but the current IE builds do not offer a search-and-replace function.
I prefer IE because it's easier there to find the complete web page address
It happened with the import from Discus (anyone remember that? ) to Vbulletin. Possibly some clever MySql-database-expert could, for a suitable fee, run a find-and-replace that would put it all to rights - or corrupt the entire database beyond repair, of course. First find your expert...
Any idea what's in the first post: & Aring; & Otilde; & Ntilde; And in the thread title garble.
Edit : I see them in the link above on HTML encoding of foreign language characters.Its the code for (?Å???Õ?Ñ). Probably Chinese characters displaying as question marks and letters.
& uuml ; is ú I think.Its a name.Lu Shang.
Chrome: I mean that I find it hard to set up links to Chrome pages, for some reason.Where's the address page.
No idea what IE flat-file format is.
A couple of years ago I made a passing reference to garbling in old threads, and wondered if it was fixable. No one else seemed to notice it. So now I have the answer.
Checked out the vBulletin forums, the issue is not uncommon and yeah, it's definitely the fault of whoever did the import. They should have aligned the character sets before importing the data. I can immediately see at least one way this issue might be resolved, but I will continue investigating to see exactly what the options are. You want the simplest, most reliable and least risky option.
Thank you so much for looking into this! It did occur to me it might be something that could be solved with find-and-replace in phpMyadmin. But I know zilch about mySql and am basically too scared of breaking things to click anything in there.
And this thread isn't the right place or audience. You'll need to talk with Hilary about it. Her email is down under Contact at the bottom of the page: hilary@onlineclarity.co.uk, or you could send her a private message through the forum.
I've also noticed on some pages apostrophes are turned into question marks (e.g. don't is turned into don?t. You can't replace them, though, because you'd also replace all the real question marks.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).