Forum submission box new weirdness with safari,chrome but not firefox - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: chickenHeadKnob
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2014, 09:29:27 pm
content: Sorry if this is due to something obvious but the text reply/submission box javascript doesn't seem to find the smiley codes or other BBC codes when I use the forum with Safari or Chrome on a mac but firefox isWORKING CORRECTLY, see!This has just started acting up the last few days, any insight from the forum brain trust appreciated.ThanksPS: the javescript console in chrome reports undefined symbols

author: Macbeth
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2014, 10:09:15 pm
content: I've noticed this too - my solution was to choose "preview in browser" and then the emoticons work.More seriously is I found using standard Cyrillic characters with the default font that totally supports these characters got replaced with question marks. This is seriously shitty as finding old CCCP parts and datasheets is far easier using the correct alphabet. I dont understand why '?' is easier for an engineer to decode than all of the individual cyrillic characters it replaces?Let's try I, De, En, and Be I tried to use on my Nixie tube post - (?, ?, ?, ?)Why not ban all the greek characters too? Omega, Beta, Pi, Micro, Nano - change them all to '?' - so much easier for the world to read. (Lets see - ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)I will post and see what happens...

author: rolandpenplotter
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2014, 10:11:37 pm
content: NONE of the emotes or italic/bold options work for me, in Chrome Version 32.0.1700.76 m (or the previous 31.X)

author: Macbeth
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2014, 10:24:24 pm
content: Well I just proved that not only cyrillic, but fucking greek characters don't work, the most famous one of all - Omega!. I can't even post sarcastic LOLZ about it either.Someone has got a VC99 DICKHEAD to do his forum software. TOTAL DICKHEAD! (sorry, can't post LOLZ! - they don't work coz of the TOTAL DICKHEAD!)(I'm now off to use my VC99 to measure my boiling piss temperature with it's total dickhead K-type probe that appears to have been implemented perfectly)

author: rolandpenplotter
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2014, 10:58:03 pm
content: Quote from: Macbeth on January 15, 2014, 10:24:24 pmHave a cuppa and relax.

author: dr.diesel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2014, 11:12:36 pm
content: Smilies fail to work for me as well. Stopped working ~4-5 days ago, Chrome 31/32 Linux.

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 16, 2014, 12:42:33 am
content: It has been out for me for some few days, but seems to have come back today. Chrome Version 32.0.1700.72 m on a Win7 machine. I haven't done anything special today, though in the past, I have rebooted, checked chrome settings and so on. Glad the emotes are back..

author: Macbeth
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 17, 2014, 05:18:43 pm
content: Lets test: smiley - nope nothing happening - Switch to preview mode:- It worksGreek Omega: ? (Unicode U+03A9)Russian De: ? (Unicode U+0414)Chrome Version 32.0.1700.76 mOk, in preview everything works. Foreign characters show back perfectly, Now lets see what happens AFTER I post...ETA: After posting, foreign characters are turned into ?. Utterly useless for an electronics forum. Is the mySQL backend doing some character translation?

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 17, 2014, 05:30:10 pm
content: There are two different problems. Greek characters and special characters not showing up is a long standing problem that apparently is related to the database storage schema on the back end.Bold, italic, smilies, insert quote etc. features not working appears to be something quite recent that broke with Chrome. It's been bugging me too. I have no idea of the cause...except suddenly today it is all working again.