**** If you're still experiencing "Database Error" ****

[twowheeladdict]

I think this is just a passive way to keep me from posting anymore oh wait now it worked

But you signature line is all screwed up on my browser.  Special characters.

[Speedfrog]

Luap, nope, wired connection.

[Speedfrog]

And look at dirk s signature, all garbled up.

[Dirk_S]

I wasnt able to comment, post, or message at all for the past few days, possibly due to the punctuation. Oh hey again! The : ; ? ! , and period work!

Seems to be those rascally ellipses, hyphens, apostrophes, and quotation marks that kept me out.

[Speedfrog]

Yep Dirk, same here, any apostrophe and the post will not go!

[Speedfrog]

I am using old machines with older browsers, I think these problems are caused by a lack of backwards  compatibility since the upgrade.

[Ncdan]

[kballowe]

 

GREMLINS !

[twowheeladdict]

Easy to fix in his profile. I can't fix that. Must have been a bi-product of all the issues and corruption.

Here's the ''''''''''apostrophes. It's not a board issue whatsoever. It'll heal, just needs time for DNS things to reset. 10000000% out of my control.

How about posting Cafe with the accent over the e.

[Speedfrog]

Easy to fix in his profile. I can't fix that. Must have been a bi-product of all the issues and corruption.

Here's the ''''''''''apostrophes. It's not a board issue whatsoever. It'll heal, just needs time for DNS things to reset. 10000000% out of my control.

I was not able to fix mine!

[Speedfrog]

But I was able to post with a quote!! Yay
Totally random stuff . . .

[Luap McKeever]

How about posting Cafe with the accent over the e.

cafe'

[73 sport]

   The mark Luap used is a "Coma" not an l' accent aigu used primarily in french.

[twowheeladdict]

cafe'

That is an apostrophe not an accent.

Here is what I am asking you to post.

[Dr. Enzo Toma]

I can confirm that issue when trying to post cafe with the accent. I have otherwise not experienced an issue. There's no reason DNS would have to do with special characters, the two are unrelated.

"Database Error
Please try again. If you come back to this error screen, report the error to an administrator."

From debug console:
"A form was submitted in the windows-1252 encoding which cannot encode all Unicode characters, so user input may get corrupted. To avoid this problem, the page should be changed so that the form is submitted in the UTF-8 encoding either by changing the encoding of the page itself to UTF-8 or by specifying accept-charset=utf-8 on the form element."

[Luap McKeever]

I can confirm that issue when trying to post cafe with the accent. I have otherwise not experienced an issue. There's no reason DNS would have to do with special characters, the two are unrelated.

"Database Error
Please try again. If you come back to this error screen, report the error to an administrator."

From debug console:
"A form was submitted in the windows-1252 encoding which cannot encode all Unicode characters, so user input may get corrupted. To avoid this problem, the page should be changed so that the form is submitted in the UTF-8 encoding either by changing the encoding of the page itself to UTF-8 or by specifying accept-charset=utf-8 on the form element."

Interesting. Not even sure where to begin with that one and the last time I had issues out of my control I had to hire someone to fix it and as of now, the funds for 3rd party are empty. But, I'll try and see what can be done. I don't even know how to type that on my keyboard haha.

[Dr. Enzo Toma]

If you are using a modern version of Windows you can launch the "Character Map" application which is included. Another approach, without knowing the keyboard shortcuts for unicode modifiers, is to search the web for the word "cafe" and then copy and paste the word with the accent over the e from a result.

[kidsmoke]

Interesting. Not even sure where to begin with that one and the last time I had issues out of my control I had to hire someone to fix it and as of now, the funds for 3rd party are empty. But, I'll try and see what can be done. I don't even know how to type that on my keyboard haha.

the way I've used for years, as I'm also a huge Larivee guitar fan and the first of those two e's should carry the accent, is to hold the ALT key while entering 133, an accented e immediately presents.

[Luap McKeever]

The database was converted to UTF-8 so special characters should work.

I suggest totally testing different angles, signatures, editing, including looking over messages and posts and let me know if all is well.

Luap

[AJ Huff]

Café 😏

-AJ

[Ncdan]

I actually got a PM to go through yesterday.
If this goes then hallelujah!

Dan

[Ncdan]

The database was converted to UTF-8 so special characters should work.

I suggest totally testing different angles, signatures, editing, including looking over messages and posts and let me know if all is well.

Luap

Yesterday I was able to get an extended multi paragraph PM to go through. This was the first one since the update work was completed.
Today I got two multi word post to go through.
Hopefully this one will also. 🤞

[twowheeladdict]

Café

Working now.  I use a virtual keyboard that suggests proper spelling of words like café.

[Ncdan]

It appears that what ever changes were made today or yesterday had fixed the glitch.
Everything I’ve tried today has worked fine.
Good job Luap!

[Dirk_S]

“You don’t say…” said I.

(By golly—it works!)

[Luap McKeever]

It appears that what ever changes were made today or yesterday had fixed the glitch.
Everything I’ve tried today has worked fine.
Good job Luap!

Strange. the updates from yesterday would have no bearing on the issue you were having. It was simply a character and search index update. But, I'll take it.

[cliffrod]

It appears that what ever changes were made today or yesterday had fixed the glitch.
Everything I’ve tried today has worked fine.
Good job Luap!

Same here.  I am able to post normally again.  Thank you, Luap.