[Mkguild] Problems with the archive website

[Alex Green]

It's not exactly what I'd call a fix. The site should be readable by the
end user without them having to do anything out of the ordinary.

-AlexSurikat
On Jul 19, 2015 3:51 PM, "C. Matthias" <jagille3 at vt.edu> wrote:

> 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.ÂÂ
>>>> 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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