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Post by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on Jun 17, 2012 0:35:58 GMT -6
Might it be an OS thing, Dieter? I switched to Ubuntu last month.
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Post by D. N. Vercáriâ on Jun 17, 2012 11:17:12 GMT -6
I am using Ubuntu on various computers.
The OS itself is not causing problems with internet sites, as far as I can tell.
When I ran into problems with loading / displaying web pages, sometimes a problem with the browser was the reason. Firefox seems to be more compatible than Opera (my preferred browser) or Chromium (my choice number two).
Another problem I had to deal with was a slow NFS connection (100 Mbit/sec); especially Firefox was choking on writing all kind of buffered stuff to the network-based file system. Changing to a Gigabit connection helped to solve this issue.
It's (more or less) impossible to analyse your problem from the distance, Alex, as there are so many possible reasons why web pages may not load correctly. I wonder if you may be getting timeouts of some sort when loading Witt - what type of a connection to the internet are you on? Do you run into the same problem with other websites? The abandoned Republican Witt, for instance? Or Facebook or other sites?
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Post by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on Jun 17, 2012 20:34:13 GMT -6
The problem seems to have gone away! So while I'm not sure what the cause was, I can only assume it was a problem with Peculiarism.
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Post by D. N. Vercáriâ on Jun 18, 2012 1:54:27 GMT -6
Hmpf.
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Trotxâ
Talossan since 10-17-2005; Knight since 11-5-2006
Deo duce, ferro comitante
Posts: 1,574
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Post by Trotxâ on Jun 18, 2012 22:09:36 GMT -6
I have been getting a LOT of errors when I read Witt. Pages will frequently load incompletely, and require one or more refreshes before they will actually finish loading. As near as I can tell, this is a server-side problem. Is anyone else experiencing this, or is it regional? Yep - having this same problem in Vuode. It started for me on 24 May. Firefox gave me 'Invalid URL The requested URL "/index.cgi", is invalid.' errors. IE gave a HTTP 400 Bad Request error message. It has been erratically available since then. Other URLs load with no problems. On top of this, my e-mail has been hacked. Sorry I've I'm behind on my correspondence. I owe several of His Majesty's citizens a follow-up e-mail. Trotxâ
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Post by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on Jun 18, 2012 23:45:14 GMT -6
The day is coming soon when we will have to move away from proboards.
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Post by Alèx Soleighlfred on Jun 30, 2012 2:13:33 GMT -6
Now another type of problem I am personally experiencing. I've switched from Linux to Windows (not by my wish, I just had to) and what I see is huge glitches with the accented latin symbols and other special symbols. The problem is: all those letters with umlauts get interchanged with cyrillic letters, and I don't know what to do. Examples? Say, in "Sir Trotxa Betiñeir", two-dotted "a" and accented "e" get replaced by cyrillic letters "Sir Trotxâ Betiñéir" which for me reads as "Sir Trotxv Beticjir" (sorry for the particular name usage, it's just as an example). Majority of Talossan names got unreadeable for me, I scream for help.
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Post by Sir Alexandreu Davinescu on Jul 5, 2012 2:08:19 GMT -6
This can probably be solved in Windows by installing expanded language packs.
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Lüc da Schir
Senator for Benito
If Italy wins a Six Nations match I will join the Zouaves
Posts: 4,125
Talossan Since: 3-21-2012
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Post by Lüc da Schir on Jul 5, 2012 6:53:03 GMT -6
Or simply using a font like Arial Unicode MS for your browser.
Btw, I hope you aren't reading my signature "Lüc Ián Braneu da Schir" as "Look That Brown Shit".
Informatic paradoxes.
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Post by Eðo Grischun on Jul 6, 2012 10:47:21 GMT -6
Or simply using a font like Arial Unicode MS for your browser. Btw, I hope you aren't reading my signature "Lüc Ián Braneu da Schir" as "Look That Brown Shit". Informatic paradoxes. LOL! ;D Eðo Grischun (Eww Grey Shoe)
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Post by Alèx Soleighlfred on Jul 8, 2012 0:27:51 GMT -6
You look like "Epo" for me, and Luc looks like "L + russian soft sign + c", which is intransliteable to english.
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Istefan Perþonest
Cunstaval to Fiôvâ; Regent of the University of Talossa
Posts: 1,024
Talossan Since: 2-21-1998
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Post by Istefan Perþonest on Jul 8, 2012 11:37:05 GMT -6
Okay, if you're getting Lüc's ü looking like ь, then what's happening is that the character is being served to you as ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252 character 252 (which is ü), but being interpreted by your browser as Windows-1251 or Macintosh Cyrillic character 252 (which is ь).
This can be fixed by manually by you telling your browser to display in the ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252 encoding, which procedure (and what name it appears under) differs from browser to browser.
Another fix might be to switch to a browser that doesn't mangle the encoding from what the page source says it is. What browser are you using?
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Xhorxh Asmour
Talossan since 02-21-2003
Wot? Me, worry?
Posts: 1,754
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Post by Xhorxh Asmour on Jul 8, 2012 21:24:48 GMT -6
I use Windows 7 Home Premium and IE 9. Never had any problems before with older versions, though.
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Istefan Perþonest
Cunstaval to Fiôvâ; Regent of the University of Talossa
Posts: 1,024
Talossan Since: 2-21-1998
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Post by Istefan Perþonest on Jul 9, 2012 11:00:01 GMT -6
I use Windows 7 Home Premium and IE 9. Never had any problems before with older versions, though. Yes, but your language/locale (Portuguese/Brazil) is one that would use Windows-1252 as its standard codepage, while Alexandreu Bisquinc's would use Windows-1251 by default. The problem seems to be that Proboards is using a nonstandard header to declare itself ISO-8859-1. So, if his browser isn't recognizing the header, it falls back on autodetection algorithms. Mostly-English-with-occasional-Talossan isn't something that's likely covered by any autodetection algorithms, so, with nothing else to guide it, it then favors his native codepage.
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Post by Alèx Soleighlfred on Jul 10, 2012 1:51:20 GMT -6
Okay, if you're getting Lüc's ü looking like ь, then what's happening is that the character is being served to you as ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252 character 252 (which is ü), but being interpreted by your browser as Windows-1251 or Macintosh Cyrillic character 252 (which is ь). This can be fixed by manually by you telling your browser to display in the ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252 encoding, which procedure (and what name it appears under) differs from browser to browser. Another fix might be to switch to a browser that doesn't mangle the encoding from what the page source says it is. What browser are you using? Oh, thank you! Now you've made it cristal clear for me. I use Firefox as my primary browser and Midori and Dillo as my additional browsers. Midori does display Proboards correctly, so that's a browser thing. I will investigate the encodings issues and comment here once I succeed.
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