catsamurai16 Posted October 10, 2016 Report Posted October 10, 2016 For a while now, I’ve noticed some stories have weird black outlined question marks replacing the quotation marks. Does anyone know what I’m talking about and how to fix it? Quote
BronxWench Posted October 10, 2016 Report Posted October 10, 2016 Hi! I’ll quote from our latest site news: Quote Oddball characters in place of punctuation This happened as a direct result of there being entirely too many character sets within each table. As I’ve said before, I stopped counting after I hit 12 or so that I found. I found many more after that. What happened, is that when I ran the conversion to utf8, where it was not a normal characters set which the query series expected, it converted the text instead to ANSI (Windows-1252). This is important, to know what it converted to, so you can do the temporary fix while I go through each and every individual chapter throughout the archive. In your browser, set the text encoding to Windows-1252. This option should be in any browser’s “tools” setting. Except for Edge. I can’t find it in Edge. Urrgh. Once I have finished the edits to finalize the character set conversion for the affected chapters, this is something you’ll no longer need to do. I will let you know progress on where this is finalized. This will fix it for you, and make all those symbols disappear, until DemonGoddess061 is done with the conversions. Quote
catsamurai16 Posted October 10, 2016 Author Report Posted October 10, 2016 Thank you for your help. I use Firefox and I can’t find a way to change it. Any ideas? Quote
BronxWench Posted October 11, 2016 Report Posted October 11, 2016 (edited) I don’t use Firefox, but in Chrome, I go to the settings dropdown on the menu bar, select “More Tools” and from there, “Encoding.” Firefox shouldn’t be much different, I think. Edit: Could it be under the View menu? In the dropdown below, it used to say Character encoding, and you could then select the proper encoding. Edited October 11, 2016 by BronxWench Quote
catsamurai16 Posted October 11, 2016 Author Report Posted October 11, 2016 Text Encoding is indeed in the View section, the Windows-1252 selection is not. Thank you again for your help. I’ll try some of the other selections. Quote
Melrick Posted October 11, 2016 Report Posted October 11, 2016 For anybody else using Firefox, selecting “Western” encoding instead of “Unicode” seems to do the trick. BronxWench 1 Quote
catsamurai16 Posted October 11, 2016 Author Report Posted October 11, 2016 Okay, that worked. Than you for your help, Melrick, sir. And your help, BronxWench. I really appreciate it. Quote
BronxWench Posted October 11, 2016 Report Posted October 11, 2016 I’m glad Melrick had the answer! Quote
Guest soundofpurple Posted January 21, 2020 Report Posted January 21, 2020 This issues has been bothering me for years and only just now have I bothered to look up how to fix it.. points for me I suppose. Thanks guys Quote
fluxguy23 Posted February 12, 2020 Report Posted February 12, 2020 Anyone know how to correct this in mobile browser like opera? Quote
BronxWench Posted February 12, 2020 Report Posted February 12, 2020 1 hour ago, fluxguy23 said: Anyone know how to correct this in mobile browser like opera? I am not an Opera expert, but I think you might need to add a Chrome extension to allow for text encoding changes. It used to be in Opera’s View > Text Encoding menu, but that was eliminated some time ago. Opera now uses Chrome extensions for that function. Hopefully we have actual Opera experts who will chime in as well, if I’m mistaken. Quote
Guest Simplycake Posted September 1, 2020 Report Posted September 1, 2020 On 10/10/2016 at 12:15 PM, catsamurai16 said: For a while now, I’ve noticed some stories have weird black outlined question marks replacing the quotation marks. Does anyone know what I’m talking about and how to fix it? I know right I'm trying to fix it Quote
Guest Guest Posted October 12, 2020 Report Posted October 12, 2020 Hi I’m trying to read a story on my iPad using chrome, and almost all of the text is just question marks �� does anyone have any tips ? Quote
BronxWench Posted October 12, 2020 Report Posted October 12, 2020 8 minutes ago, Guest Guest said: Hi I’m trying to read a story on my iPad using chrome, and almost all of the text is just question marks �� does anyone have any tips ? In Chrome, there is an extension that will allow you to change encoding to either Windows-1252 or Western, either of which should remove the black diamonds. It is called “Webpage Default Encoding Changer” and replaces the encoding features removed with the Chrome 55+ upgrades. Quote
Guest Jon Posted October 23, 2021 Report Posted October 23, 2021 I downloaded Webpage Default Encoding Changer, any tips how to use it to remove the ��? Quote
BronxWench Posted October 23, 2021 Report Posted October 23, 2021 I do believe that you need to open the extension, or enable it, from Chrome’s Settings menu. Go to extensions, click on the encoding changer, and make sure it is set to “On.” It should then be possible to scroll down and look under “Extension Options.” Set the default encoding to Windows (CP-1252). That should do away with all the black diamond characters. Quote
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