Text Glitch

[honeybee]

Kotik submitted some text that was in an unusual font - and I cut and pasted it into the archive but it came out as "????????". Is there a way around this? Can I tell Kotik what to substitute? Or should we just avoid weird fonts?

[aadarshinah]

It was Russian alphabet. To best of my knowledge, unless the browser and various parts of the site are set up to acommedate it, the text won't render.

[panyasan]

It was Russian alphabet. To best of my knowledge, unless the browser and various parts of the site are set up to acommedate it, the text won't render.

That's correct. The only solution would to make a picture of the text and insert the text as a picture into the text. If that is problematic, the best way is write down the Russian in Roman script (the Roman alfabet we use on the site), the same that you would do with for example Japanese words.

[Enerdhil]

It was Russian alphabet. To best of my knowledge, unless the browser and various parts of the site are set up to acommedate it, the text won't render.

That's correct. The only solution would to make a picture of the text and insert the text as a picture into the text. If that is problematic, the best way is write down the Russian in Roman script (the Roman alfabet we use on the site), the same that you would do with for example Japanese words.

I asked my son about (he knows Russian and it'a hell in computing) and he says that it should be enough to codify the text in UTF-8. That should handle the cyrillic alphabet.

[EntAllat]

If the weird font is Russian (Cyrillic) your best bet is to paste it into something like TextEdit and take a screen shot to post as a picture.

Cyrillic is a UTF-8 character set. Those can only be displayed properly in posts on PHP's BBS system but that's typically done when the BBS is first configured upon setup. It can be done after-the-fact but involves editing the MySQL tables. I know somebody who could do it if it's really needed.

[mjimeyg]

The fanfic section is set to UTF-8, I added some more declarations though just incase. The databases are also set to UTF-8. It could be the TinyMCE editor we use or something else causing the problems. Without seeing the text in question, I can't say more.

If you still have trouble, send it to me and if necessary we will try entering it manually.