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Title: Nonsense characters appearing in posts
Post by: Jim_MI on December 19, 2023, 11:19:14 PM

I could not find anyone else complaining about this, so maybe it is just my devices. But most of the posts and threads on this site contain gibberish non-standard text when I read them on either of my Android devices. Often, this occurs where an apostrophe or quotation mark should be present, but these are instead replaced with 3-5 wingding-style text characters.  I will paste an example from a recent post below.

place a .375”-.5” layer in a 9X13 baking dish

Anybody know of a fix or workaround?

Title: Re: Nonsense characters appearing in posts
Post by: old sarge on December 20, 2023, 09:55:00 AM

I haven't noticed that I can remember(I use a mac).  Please PM me with links to a couple of the posts.

Title: Re: Nonsense characters appearing in posts
Post by: Lonzinomaker on December 20, 2023, 02:14:10 PM

I see them frequently too.

Title: Re: Nonsense characters appearing in posts
Post by: old sarge on December 20, 2023, 02:42:26 PM

Please send me members name/moniker and link to post(s).  I will see what I can do. Thansk.

Title: Re: Nonsense characters appearing in posts
Post by: Jim_MI on December 31, 2023, 04:09:57 PM

Hi David. I was browsing Bacon recipes today and came across more nonsense characters. Here are some links:

Quote from: Ken on May 20, 2022, 03:24:00 PM

For me, it’s rare to get the smoke that I like.

Quote from: tpcdelisle on May 29, 2022, 12:22:44 PM

Great idea. I’m going to try this. I’m just finishing eating a double smoked ham that we made and it was fabulous.

Quote from: barelfly on March 11, 2021, 11:16:34 PM

Thanks for the tip on the smoke tube. I’ve looked at this a few times but haven’t picked one up.

Quote from: barelfly on August 01, 2020, 04:45:45 PM

I went more wood chunks than I have before, added some in later in the smoke to get a little more as I wasn’t seeing much smoke.

Title: Re: Nonsense characters appearing in posts
Post by: old sarge on December 31, 2023, 10:07:39 PM

All - I have sent a link to this page to Ben.  Let's see what he has to say.  I'm stymied.  I belong to several forums and once in a while, a post to one will come in from a foreign country with similar special characters.  I cannot figure out what it is happening here. David

UPDATE:  Ben is working on this.

Title: Re: Nonsense characters appearing in posts
Post by: BHamel on January 01, 2024, 12:48:20 PM

I will be doing a site upgrade this week to resolve this and some other bug fixes.  This will cause a site theme change as the current theme is not supported by the new software.  Look for the changes this week.

Thanks
Ben

Title: Re: Nonsense characters appearing in posts
Post by: old sarge on January 01, 2024, 04:01:02 PM

Many thanks Ben.

Title: Re: Nonsense characters appearing in posts
Post by: Jim_MI on January 01, 2024, 04:27:26 PM

Thanks, guys. Looking forward to the update.