<div dir="ltr">Yeah, that's what I was thinking. In that case, it'll probably be easier just to build the file again from the original than to try to correct the one already in the database. <div><br></div><div>-AlexSurikat</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 11:39 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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    It could also have something to do with how the files were built and
    uploaded. Anyways, there's a nice extension for Firefox that allows
    you to force the browser to display in a specific encoding. The
    extension is called Charset Switcher.<span class=""><br>
    <br>
    <div>On 7/19/2015 10:26 AM, Alex Green
      wrote:<br>
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    </span><blockquote type="cite"><span class="">
      <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>
      </span><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
        <div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">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>
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            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><span class=""> 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><br>
                <br>
                <div>On 7/19/2015 10:12 AM, Alex Green wrote:<br>
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              </span><blockquote type="cite"><span class=""><span>
                  <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. 
                    <div><br>
                    </div>
                    <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>
                    <div><br>
                    </div>
                    <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>
                    <div>
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                      <div>-AlexSurikat</div>
                    </div>
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                  <div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><span>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=""><span> 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. </span>
                        </span><div>
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                              <br>
                              <div>On 7/19/2015 6:25 AM, C. Matthias
                                wrote:<br>
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                            </span>
                            </span><blockquote type="cite"><span class=""><span> 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>
                                <br>
                                At 03:13 PM 7/18/2015, Virmir wrote:<br>
                              </span>
                              </span><blockquote type="cite"><span>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"></a><a href="https://cse.google.com/cse/" target="_blank">https://cse.google.com/cse/</a><span class=""><br>
                                  <br>
                                  Regarding the domain, I do own and pay
                                  for <a href="http://metamorkeep.com" target="_blank">metamorkeep.com</a>. 


                                  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>
                                  <br>
                                </span></span>
                                <div>
                                  <div><span class=""> 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>
                                    </span><dl><span class="">
                                      <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>
                                      </span><span class=""><dd>On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 2:28
                                        PM, Andrew Vineyard <<a href="mailto:dimensional42@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><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>
                                            <br>
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                                    -- <br>
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