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11th Aug 2014, 10:41 am | #21 | |
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13th Aug 2014, 1:14 pm | #23 |
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We seem to be missing the Pound sign now - I've noticed this in several posts.
Or is it just at my end? N. |
13th Aug 2014, 1:21 pm | #24 |
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You're right.
Pound= Dollar=$ Euro= Yen= The characters show when typed, but disappear when the post is saved. |
13th Aug 2014, 1:40 pm | #25 |
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I will take a look later. Part of the vBulletin update was to work around a messy issue with default character-sets being changed in some PHP functions between PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4 (PHP developers breaking the golden rule of not making changes that break old code). I need to find out at what point they are lost and try to prevent their loss... probably not a quick job with the scale of the vBulletin code. :/
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13th Aug 2014, 1:51 pm | #26 |
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It's hardly a big deal, Paul, just something I thought I'd flag-up.
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13th Aug 2014, 2:13 pm | #27 |
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The problem seems to be with the Quick Reply and the inline editor. If you "Go Advanced" the £ sign works OK.
So it's probably an issue with the javascript/ajax code used for the quick reply and inline editing. |
13th Aug 2014, 2:24 pm | #28 |
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I have just set "Disable problematic AJAX features" in admin which seems to have fixed it. That setting is meant for non-English boards...
It has removed the inline post editing and slightly changed how Quick Reply is posted. It may have changed a few other things that I haven't noticed yet too. Any posts with missing £ characters will need to be edited to reinstate them. I will report it as a bug in the vBulletin forums, though I won't hold my breath for a proper fix. EDIT: Posted here http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...n-3-8-9-beta-1 |
13th Aug 2014, 3:44 pm | #29 |
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The thing have i noticed before the update is very often you get a capital letter and smaller and its not a typo.
Example Ii
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13th Aug 2014, 5:15 pm | #31 |
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No, I've noticed it for a while, but I've always assumed it was a typo caused by people using touchscreens and/or predictive text. It's never happened to me.
All the disappearing currency codes aren't present in bog standard 7 bit ASCII so there's probably some sort of Unicode handling problem. Is it fixed? £££ Yes it is! |
13th Aug 2014, 5:40 pm | #32 |
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All OK here too, just had to log in again (Firefox remembered it after typing the first character of my name). Much smoother than most 'upgrades', thank you Paul.
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13th Aug 2014, 6:21 pm | #33 |
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Well done and thanks!
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20th Aug 2014, 1:51 pm | #34 |
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Another oddity that I've noticed, again not a big deal, but thought you might be interested:
When editing a post now, the formatting seems to disappear, resulting in one giant paragraph. Of course, it only takes a few seconds to put the paragraphs back again, but it didn't used to be like that. I'm using Windows XP and Windows 7 with either Chrome or Firefox. N. |
20th Aug 2014, 2:24 pm | #35 |
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User CP - Edit Options. Scroll down and choose Standard Editor.
Or click the slanted A icon at the top right corner of the editor, which is probably selected making it basic text editing (which is useless). |
20th Aug 2014, 7:55 pm | #36 |
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Selecting the Standard editor instead of WYSIWYG seems to have solved it.
Thanks, Paul |