Topic: Funky characters, revisited

[Anastasios]

While you all were enjoying your enforced break from OCnet posting  , I used the shutdown to go in and have at some more of those funky characters (a project I started work on on Clean Monday last year!)  I went through the Spanish section this time and almost completely eliminated all of them.

Just wanted to update you on that.

Fr Anastasios

[wynd]

Do you still want people to report posts with funky characters?

[basilthefool]

What exactly (or approximately, if the definition is too 'graphic') is a funky character? For example, is Bishop Antoun a funky character?

[Anastasios]

Wynd,

No, I don't need them reported anymore; I am going thread by thread now in the foreign language forums. But thank you for asking.

basilthefool,

Har har.  When we did a migration of a database about 4 years ago, many characters with unicode encoding (used especially with foreign languages) were messed up. I have been gradually fixing them, but it takes hours so I can only do it a bit at a time.

[ytterbiumanalyst]

Gracias, Padre.

[Orual]

What exactly (or approximately, if the definition is too 'graphic') is a funky character? For example, is Bishop Antoun a funky character?

I'd say so, that's why I'm OCA now.   

Thanks for your hard work, Fr Anastasios!