[Mkguild] Problems with the archive website

[C. Matthias]

Okay, I gave that a try and it 
worked.  Weird!  Thanks for letting me know how to fix it.

May He bless you and keep you in His grace and love,

Charles Matthias

At 11:12 AM 7/19/2015, 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.Â
>
>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.Â
>
>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.Â
>
>-AlexSurikat
>
>On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Andrew 
>Vineyard <<mailto:dimensional42 at gmail.com>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.Â
>>
>>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/>https://cse.google.com/cse/
>>>
>>>Regarding the domain, I do own and pay for 
>>><http://metamorkeep.com>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 <http://transform.to>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. 
>>><http://mishablogsaboutmuffins.metamorkeep.com>mishablogsaboutmuffins.metamorkeep.com
>>>
>>>On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Alex Green 
>>><<mailto:alexsurikat at gmail.com>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 <<mailto:dimensional42 at gmail.com>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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