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18 Aug 2011, 12:29 pm

Hi , I'm trying to do some AS awareness in a major UK newspaper forum. They are really Ok , and I'm chatting to all kinds of people in jobs that will take on board stuff
about us and they genuinely want to learn more in an open minded positive way. They may commission a series of articles looking at the world from our point of view, we need this in the UK and are behind USA in awareness.

They have had their forum revamped and seem unable to sort out some of the text problems.

It would be a great help if anyone could tell them why their text keeps appearing with accents all over the place.

Is it simple to fix?

Can anyone here send code/ advice to fix.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... f-comments

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Quote:
Oh and about Gégé Depardieu, I trust a lovely article by Agnès Poirier defending his recent civil disobedience protest as proof that French performers are still at the vanguard of civil liberties and intellectual debate is on the way...



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18 Aug 2011, 4:30 pm

I see the same as you so its probably problem at the comment writers end.


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18 Aug 2011, 4:39 pm

They don't have the right font set. The website is basically asking the browser to display characters that aren't stored locally. This can happen on any OS/browser.



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18 Aug 2011, 4:50 pm

Thanks what font set do they need and where do they get it ? Thanks so much for this so far.

They are actually Okay, but they shout at each other a lot and it's difficult sometimes to work with them.

They like playing some of the games and are discussing Transformers and monster trucks instead of shouting now and some more games like I've shown them that we play here. This is encouraging!! !



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18 Aug 2011, 4:53 pm

Off thread- some of them are really kindly and I'm wondering if I should invite the kindly ones to play with some of the LFA's who are here. Tell stories to them ,read their stories etc. The NT's and LFA's might learn how to play more?



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18 Aug 2011, 4:59 pm

They would need to install all locale (language) packs for their OS. These can be quite large in size. Personally I like to save the space.



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18 Aug 2011, 5:02 pm

Tom_Kakes wrote:
They don't have the right font set. The website is basically asking the browser to display characters that aren't stored locally. This can happen on any OS/browser.
I saw a comment posted somewhere on The Grauniad's comment threads, aimed at a Mac user who had asked the same question. The suggested fix was to compose the message in whatever the Mac equivalent of Windows Notepad is (I forget what they called it), then copy/paste to the thread.
This presumably side-steps the user's browser enforcing a character encoding known only to itself.


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18 Aug 2011, 5:07 pm

Cornflake wrote:
Tom_Kakes wrote:
They don't have the right font set. The website is basically asking the browser to display characters that aren't stored locally. This can happen on any OS/browser.
I saw a comment posted somewhere on The Grauniad's comment threads, aimed at a Mac user who had asked the same question. The suggested fix was to compose the message in whatever the Mac equivalent of Windows Notepad is (I forget what they called it), then copy/paste to the thread.
This presumably side-steps the user's browser enforcing a character encoding known only to itself.


Yeah this would work as lucidia console (mac monospace) has to be a full set. It should work with any monospace console font.

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