<div dir="ltr">Looking around the site and seeing other pages render correctly leads me to believe that the problem might just lie in the encoding of that particular page in the database. <div><br></div><div>The odd thing is, I know at some point that page rendered correctly, as I read all the stories up to "Dominion of the Hyacinth" off the archive. <br><div><br></div><div>-AlexSurikat</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Andrew Vineyard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dimensional42@gmail.com" target="_blank">dimensional42@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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.<span class=""><br>
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<div>On 7/19/2015 10:12 AM, Alex Green
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>-AlexSurikat</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:34 AM,
Andrew Vineyard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dimensional42@gmail.com" target="_blank">dimensional42@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><span class=""> 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.
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<div>On 7/19/2015 6:25 AM, C. Matthias wrote:<br>
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</span><blockquote type="cite"><span class=""> I have a different issue with
the Metamor Keep Archive.<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
Somebody definitely ought to take a look into that!
It wasn't at all like this two weeks ago the last
time I checked.<br>
<br>
May He bless you and keep you in His grace and love,<br>
<br>
Charles Matthias<br>
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At 03:13 PM 7/18/2015, Virmir wrote:<br>
</span><blockquote type="cite"><span class="">Hello!<br>
<br>
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. <a href="https://cse.google.com/cse/" target="_blank">https://cse.google.com/cse/</a><br>
<br>
Regarding the domain, I do own and pay for <a href="http://metamorkeep.com" target="_blank">metamorkeep.com</a>.Â
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 <a href="http://transform.to" target="_blank">transform.to</a>
situation though. ;)<br>
<br>
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. <a href="http://mishablogsaboutmuffins.metamorkeep.com" target="_blank">
mishablogsaboutmuffins.metamorkeep.com</a><br>
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On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Alex Green <<a href="mailto:alexsurikat@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:alexsurikat@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexsurikat@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<dd>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. <br>
<br>
</dd>
<dd>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. <br>
<br>
</dd>
<dd>It might be worth it to ask Virmir about
this one as he set it up and might remember
how to do it again. <br>
<br>
</dd>
<dd>P.S. I find it funny that both Chris and my
test searches were related as we both searched
for or respective species. <br>
</dd>
<dd>-AlexSurikat<br>
<br>
</dd>
<dd>On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Andrew
Vineyard <<a href="mailto:dimensional42@gmail.com" target="_blank">dimensional42@gmail.com</a>
> wrote:<br>
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<dd>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. <br>
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