MetaTalk posts tagged with ascii

pre tag display issues

Chuckles — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:28:47 -0800

Thank you for making <pre> tags work predictably and consistently between live preview, full preview, and posting. However.. Looks like all old uses of pre are now messed up.. Well, not all, which is a little confusing. What was I trying to draw here?!?!? Do we need a back<pre>tagging project? It would be a lot harder to implement, obviously.. Any ideas?

Unusual Characters causing trouble with titles and tags

dkg — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:11:07 -0800

limited characters in tags/titles? I put some uncommon non-ASCII characters in the title of a recent post on AskMe, and the address bar and tag links are kinda busted. So i made a post with some non-standard characters in the title (i think they're from the international phonetic alphabet, but don't quote me on that!). And it seemed reasonable to make one of the tags include some of those characters too, since they're relevant to the post. When i submitted the post, though (and when i added a new tag), my URL bar gets repointed to: http://ask.metafilter.com/103973/A-boost-at-the-polls-from-jMMlYr, though i think it should probably be: http://ask.metafilter.com/103973/A-boost-at-the-polls-from-jōōlərē. Both links work, at least! But why would the first one show up? Furthermore, the link to the tag i'd created (nōō'kyə-lər-jōō'lə-rē) is all kinds of garbled in the sidebar of the question display -- and the proposed link target itself even ends up at a dead page. When i try visiting what i think the correct tag URL should be, i get all kinds of weirdness. I know the tag is pretty silly and unimportant, but if certain characters aren't going to be allowed, maybe "bad tags" should just be rejected outright? It'd be cool to have full unicode tagging, though! FWIW, my browser is set to default to the UTF-8 charset (and that's what my current HTTP connections to mefi report in the HTTP headers).

Following Up?

Flying Squirrel — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:17:40 -0800

Do people follow-up much? Maybe this is covered elsewhere...just wondering if there is much follow up from people on AskMe...often I'm really curious as to what advice someone took, whether it worked out, etc. If you post an update on the thread, is anyone going to check back and see it?

You deleted my ASCII masterpiece!

Kickstart70 — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:37:20 -0800

I won't argue the removal of the ascii art, but it wasn't all that bad, was it? (RE)

I won't do it again, anyway.

Accents and posting

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:39:24 -0800

A boring, very minor quibble with a view to absolute perfection: accent xenophobia continues to run rampant in MetaFilter's and MetaTalk's posting boxes. [More inside.]

High ascii causes problems on posting

Masi — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 21:36:22 -0800

I don't know if this question is acceptable for this section, but I really am curious - what I am doing wrong ?

I have prepared a post for Metafilter (my first), and while it displays perfectly on preview, when I post it a not-so-nice error appears. Could anyone help, please ?

Pi fine on preview bad on post

jfuller — Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:32:00 -0800

The other day I posted a sentence including the Greek letter pi. This appeared as the Greek letter on preview but came out as a couple of question marks in the actual post. Today a post by languagehat included some Kanji characters and a bit later in the thread he says, darn it, ...those characters looked fine on preview. Can someone explain the difference between preview and live posting when it comes to special characters? Thanks!

Spell Check Problem

chipr — Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:27:18 -0800

Spell check problem - if the text being checked has character entity sequences > or < when spell check completes they will be replaced in the textarea with greater-than or less-than signs. My browser is: Mozilla 1.1 -- Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826.

ASCII display errors

insomnyuk — Thu, 01 Aug 2002 07:54:54 -0800

I'm seeing these ? everywhere. It's maddening for those who post them (when they go unseen in the preview), and makes reading difficult. Is there anything that can be done about this? I don't just mean a programming solution, but what is it, specifically, that the users are doing which causes this?

Looks tasty! (may crash browser)

NortonDC — Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:04:56 -0800

Looks tasty!

non-English characters - do I just need to try harder?

Danf — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:59:36 -0800

I was gonna post a link in MeFi and wanted to have my post contain a few chinese characters. . .believe me this would have been a laugh riot. I pasted in some Chinese and they came out as question marks on the preview so I decided that it would not have been THAT funny after all.

Is there something intrinsic in the MeFi servers that prevent non-English characters, or do I just need to try harder?