Strange signs on computer

Old Reflector
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Hi,

Does anyone know how to get rid of these strange signs? Typically this is when an e, a or o is in a name of a summit. see below as eg for CR and PE associations.

Regions within France(F)
Back to list of Associations

AB - Alpes Mont Blanc (563 summits)
AM - Alpes Méridionales (734 summits)
CR - Côtes-du-Rhône (264 summits)
JU - Jura (111 summits)
MC - Massif-Central (229 summits)
NO - Nord Ouest (105 summits)
PE - Pyrénées Est (323 summits)
PO - Pyrénées Ouest (267 summits)
SO - Sud Ouest (8 summits)
VL - Val de la Loire (94 summits)
VO - Vosges (77 summits)

Tnx
Frank
ON6UU

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In reply to ON6UU:
hello Frank,
These letters are accent’s one like é è ï î and so on !!!
No reconize by English script…
Try to be in French language !!!
Bye
Tof F5UBH

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In reply to F5UBH:

I’m using internet Explorer, added French to languages and moved French up to first place, restarted IE but this did not help…

73
Frank

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In reply to ON6UU:
You lucky fellow. You can see the correct characters. All accents and other special characters like German umlaute are broken for me since several months:

Regions within France(F)
Back to list of Associations

AB - Alpes Mont Blanc (563 summits)
AM - Alpes Méridionales (734 summits)
CR - Côtes-du-Rhône (264 summits)
JU - Jura (111 summits)
MC - Massif-Central (229 summits)
NO - Nord Ouest (105 summits)
PE - Pyrénées Est (323 summits)
PO - Pyrénées Ouest (267 summits)
SO - Sud Ouest (8 summits)
VL - Val de la Loire (94 summits)
VO - Vosges (77 summits)

See the old thread http://www.sotawatch.org/reflector.php?topic=8548 - as reported on Oct, 1st, 2013 since then all special characters are broken for me. Both in Firefox and Internet Explorer. I wonder how you manage to get a correct character coding?

73 de Michael, DB7MM

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In reply to DB7MM:

Michael,

same here, i used to see all Hungarian summits like they are written in hungarian, but now it is a mess…

It looks like our French friends have more luck.
Something strange is that I pasted the bad text into the edit window, after Christophe answered the test was right, all letters were ok with aksents…so not like you (Michael) entered it. Or I see ghosts…

rgds
Frank

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In reply to ON6UU:

I’d be interested to know how these names look in the SOTA Mapping Project lists from your browser(s).

Thanks, rob

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In reply to DM1CM:

Checked and all looks good there. I can’t copy it since it is protected, can send printscreen if needed.

Checked some French associations and some Hungarian, all are good there.

What does it tell you ???

73
Frank

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In reply to ON6UU:

There’s A Bug In The System?

http://www.australianwebmarketing.com.au/_blog/Motivation_On_Mondays/post/A_Bug_in_the_System/

Eradication Is The Answer:

Rob

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In reply to DM1CM:
Dear Rob,

umlaute are fine in both database and SOTA mapping tool. Also writing postings here in the reflector is fine. The only faulty part is the summits lists and pages here in SOTAWatch. You had a discussion with Martyn M1MAJ in the old thread http://www.sotawatch.org/reflector.php?topic=8548 about this issue. To my limited understanding the character coding while exchanging data between database and SOTAWatch was the problem.

73 de Michael, DB7MM

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In reply to DB7MM:

Hi Michael,

I remember the conversation, but I wasn’t sure how much (if anything) had changed since then. It’s just one of those many awkward things in computers and programming which are often not so easy to fix.

Best regards, Rob