I put in a word, then a number, into the search engine. I got many squares in the previews. Anyone want to explain what is happening?
What word and what number? :o ???
age 3
I don't see any squares, but I do see a lot of ' instead of apostrophes. ::)
I get a ム39
This is fun !!!
I typed (square)39
I get squares, too... it's what Opera does whenever it can't display a certain character.
From my n00b guess, it looks like the forum software turns apostrophes into their encoded counterparts, and the forum software is showing the 3 from the character code in the search results. Bizarre.
Peace & Luv, Liz
Yeah, I've noticed this forum having problems with smart quotes too (i.e. quotation marks that look like 66 and 99 as opposed to "").
Lousiana:
It spells out the symbols and numbers:
Ampersand hash 1 2 5 1 2 semi-colon 3 9
No spaces.
"Smart quotes" and other special characters tend to be a little dicey in HTML anyway, unless you get your page and character encoding matched up properly.
Peace & Luv, Liz
Except for the "Ampersand hash", that's what I get(unless that means the same thing as the "and" and "number" sign).
Er, yes. Ampersand is the fancy-shmancy name for the "and" sign, and hash is the fancy-shmancy name for the "number" sign. Sorry. :-[
Peace & Luv, Liz
Quote from: Jeysie on August 13, 2004, 10:36:50 PM
Ampersand hash 1 2 5 1 2 semi-colon 3 9
No spaces.
Exactomundo what I see in IE. ;P
Quote from: Jeysie on August 13, 2004, 10:43:16 PM
Er, yes. Ampersand is the fancy-shmancy name for the "and" sign, and hash is the fancy-shmancy name for the "number" sign. Sorry. :-[
Peace & Luv, Liz
No need to feel sorry. You've extended my vocabulary. 8)
Quote from: Jeysie on August 13, 2004, 10:24:57 PMIt looks like the forum software turns apostrophes into their encoded counterparts, and the forum software is showing the 3 from the character code in the search results. Bizarre.
It's probably done to prevent cross-scripting (inserting malicious scripts in forms) :-\
BTW, I had the same problem when I tried writing in Hebrew letters - they all turned into code numbers :-X
It's not the encoding part I found bizarre (although the encoding script is obviously a little sloppy)... it's the fact that the encoding was included in the search results that I found bizarre. Seems like the search function just brute force searches the raw database stuff, or something like that.
Peace & Luv, Liz