[Mkguild] Problems with the archive website

[Andrew Vineyard]

That was going to be my original thought, but when I looked at the files
what I saw seemed to match with what I posted. I commented out the line
that was having it encode as UTF-8, but it still rendered as that on my
Firefox. I think there were a few changes to the browser that affected
this too.

On 7/19/2015 10:12 AM, Alex Green wrote:
> To me, it seems the issue is one of character encoding. The browser
> expects the data to be encoded as UTF-8, but it's actually being sent
> as iso-8859-1. If you have Firefox, go to view -> character encoding,
> and select western. The page renders as it's supposed to. 
>
> That's not to say that the line breaks shouldn't be there, but they've
> always been there. Removing them will make most of the diamonds
> disappear, but there are characters like the apostrophes that still
> won't render correctly. 
>
> I'm not sure what could have changed to cause this. Most likely the
> configurations for the web server have changed so that now the server
> is serving pages as UTF-8 where it use to be serving them as
> iso-8859-1. Although, when I look through the HTML, I see two separate
> meta tags. The first sets the character set as iso-8859-1, and the
> second changes it to UTF-8. Removing that second meta tag might fix
> the issue, but I don't have enough practical experience with HTML to
> know for sure. 
>
> -AlexSurikat
>
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Andrew Vineyard
> <dimensional42 at gmail.com <mailto:dimensional42 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I've taken a look at the files. Apparently the files were uploaded
>     with line breaks where there aren't suppose to. That's what is
>     causing the issues. To give a good example, when I'm looking at
>     the file, I'm seeing that instead of having everything between the
>     <p> </p> on the same line, where you see the "?" is where there's
>     a line break in the file. It'll be a big task to fix it all, do to
>     the complexity.
>
>
>     On 7/19/2015 6:25 AM, C. Matthias wrote:
>>     I have a different issue with the Metamor Keep Archive.
>>
>>     It appears that a lot of the stories are showing various special
>>     characters as diamonds with "?" inside them.  This is extremely
>>     off-putting and renders stories difficult to read.  I suspect
>>     some of them are quote characters, en-dashes, and so forth.  This
>>     is showing up with both FireFox and Safari.  It is especially bad
>>     in my story Inchoate Carillon, Inconstant Cuckold. 
>>
>>     Somebody definitely ought to take a look into that!  It wasn't at
>>     all like this two weeks ago the last time I checked.
>>
>>     May He bless you and keep you in His grace and love,
>>
>>     Charles Matthias
>>
>>     At 03:13 PM 7/18/2015, Virmir wrote:
>>>     Hello!
>>>
>>>     Yes, that was merely a google custom search page.  I'm sure the
>>>     syntax has changed throughout the years.  It looks like the
>>>     service is still offered, so it's probably just a matter of
>>>     setting up a new one. https://cse.google.com/cse/
>>>
>>>     Regarding the domain, I do own and pay for metamorkeep.com
>>>     <http://metamorkeep.com>.  This is no big deal since it is a
>>>     pittance, however if someone else more active in the community
>>>     would like to take up ownership, I certainly wouldn't have any
>>>     problem with that (I have like seven of these things anyway). 
>>>     Whoever takes it would have to promise to be super attentive and
>>>     pay the bill on time to avoid a transform.to
>>>     <http://transform.to> situation though.  ;)
>>>
>>>     Somewhat related--I actually have the domain pointing to my
>>>     nameservers before it goes to Xepher.  This gives us a little
>>>     more control in case people have their own sites or blogs and
>>>     want to use a subdomain or something. E.g.
>>>     mishablogsaboutmuffins.metamorkeep.com
>>>     <http://mishablogsaboutmuffins.metamorkeep.com>
>>>
>>>     On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Alex Green
>>>     <alexsurikat at gmail.com <mailto:alexsurikat at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         The first problem Chris mentioned was a php error. A
>>>         variable, Counter, was being accessed before it had been
>>>         defined. I haven't run into it, so it looks like whatever
>>>         caused it has gone away for now.Â
>>>
>>>         The second problem is that the search feature provided by
>>>         Google has stopped working. I haven't been able to figure
>>>         this one out. At first glance, it appears there is a lot of
>>>         stuff in the search URL that shouldn't be there, but even
>>>         after deleting it and trying to manually rerun it, the error
>>>         persists. In that case, the reason it failed might be that
>>>         the account that the search feature was tied to has been
>>>         deleted, but this is all conjecture as I am totally
>>>         unfamiliar with how Google's custom search feature works.Â
>>>
>>>         It might be worth it to ask Virmir about this one as he set
>>>         it up and might remember how to do it again.Â
>>>
>>>         P.S. I find it funny that both Chris and my test searches
>>>         were related as we both searched for or respective species.Â
>>>         -AlexSurikat
>>>
>>>         On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Andrew Vineyard
>>>         <dimensional42 at gmail.com <mailto:dimensional42 at gmail.com> >
>>>         wrote:
>>>
>>>             I'm looking at the site, but I'm not seeing anything
>>>             wrong with it. I'm getting access to it and everything.
>>>             It may have been a slight hiccup in the server engine.
>>>             I'll still look into it and see what might be the
>>>             problem, but it appears that whatever was happening was
>>>             simply a connection error.
>>>
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