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November 09, 2005

A Triumph Of The Human Spirit

Forty-eight hours ago I tried to upgrade this site to Movable Type 3.2. All I accomplished was to break everything to the degree it was impossible for me to post new entries.

Fortunately, thanks to intensive technical support from my saintly father, everything now appears to be working again. But please let me know if you encounter anything peculiar.

UPDATE: Here's something peculiar: at least in my browser, slightly unusual characters now show up as question marks. For instance, if you scroll down to the November 6 entry "How Interesting," there's a question mark where em dashes and quote marks belongs.

BUT...if you go to the entry individual page here, everything looks fine.

And so I ask the Internet Overbrain: what's going on? How can it be fixed?

Posted at November 9, 2005 08:18 PM | TrackBack
Comments

There was a peculiar man on the tram this morning. He was wearing beige socks with sandals. Under a pin stripe suit.

Just thought you should know.

Posted by: floopmeister at November 9, 2005 08:33 PM

There is lightning in San Francisco. And thunder.

Posted by: hedgehog at November 9, 2005 08:46 PM

Virginia has a new Democratic governor, Judy Miller's been fired, I'm haunted by the panda on the left side of my screen...

something's up, all right.

Posted by: Sully at November 9, 2005 09:06 PM

Just to add to the atmosphere of the current postings...


The naked man walks alone at midnight.

Posted by: patience at November 9, 2005 09:45 PM

Could be your browser was set to view character encoding in ISO rather than UTF. It could also be from writing things in MS Word or some other text editor before before posting them. Do you compose your posts in a text editor before you upload them? It's also possible that you need to dump the browser cache. FWIW, the site looks fine in Safari, no matter how I set the text encoding. If your knees bother you, try taking turmeric capsules. Works for me!

Posted by: Rotary Public at November 10, 2005 12:15 AM

If you view source on the front page you will see that it is UTF-8 encoded
charset=utf-8

the page that correctly displays the punctuation for november 6th is encoded
charset=iso-8859-1

If you change your front page and other that are currently showing messed up characters to iso-8859-1 the question marks will go away.

However its probably better from a technical perspective to fix your content so that its keyed in in utf-8, rather than iso-8859-1 and then change your publishing so that all pages are utf-8.

Hope this helps.

Posted by: patience at November 10, 2005 01:06 AM

Jon, I would like to help you out, but I'm afraid I only understand force.

Posted by: Mollie at November 10, 2005 09:08 AM

Charge it up to evil spirits and move on.

Posted by: Spotty at November 11, 2005 01:14 PM