Forum software messing up the % (percent) symbol

[stag3]

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[eits]

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[eits]

whoa... the first one didn't work, but the subsequent ones did...

 

[eits]

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[Campy]

i really hate this problem. confuses me with those numbers lol

 

[petrusbroder]

It is not only the percent character, it is also the half-character, the et-character and most of the umlauts:

% ½ & Å å Ä ä ö Ö

Makes geographical locations and certain home pages a mess.

This was posted using Quick reply.

I will do multiple posts in different editing modes (Quick reply, Advanced Editor, editing a post), just to see if and how this works/does noit work.

 

[petrusbroder]

N ow I am using advanced editor:

% ½ &, å, Å, ä, Ä, ö Ö

The degree-character does not come out either: ºC in Quick Reply.

In the DC-forum we often post stats and this messes things up. We have - however - learned to work around this by not using those characters - but it is a pain.

 

[petrusbroder]

If you use the advanced editor, it works sometimes: ½, %, &, Å, Ä, Ö and º.

But if you for any reason edit the post the character change to gibberish.

 

[Ken g6]

It's getting worse! " is starting to appear, such as here.

Peter, did you see my script to fix this? Maybe I should turn off my script to make sure my stats posts look OK.

 

[William Gaatjes]

t seems the forum has still a problem with parsing the % sign.
The % sign is exchanged for the following code : %


Not working link because of percentage sign in html link:
http://www.plospathogens.org/article...l.ppat.1001030
Full text : plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1001030
The last percentage sign is correct.

Full text working link :
plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1001030

It seems the forum has still a problem with parsing the % sign.
It seems the forum has still a problem with parsing the % sign.
test : % .
test : 3% .
test : a% .

Sometimes the parser exchanges the % sign for a %.

It does not happen when i use the quote command but without any spaces between the quote commands and the text : [xQUOTE] [x/QUOTE]
The x is for preventing the quote command being executed.

I also noticed that it happens while posting a new message more often.
And only sometimes while editing. After the third edit attempt, the % is accepted.

When i copy paste an entire text with an % sign in it, the % is maintained. Maybe a minimal amount of character space is needed ( including spaces) ?

I tried it again :
The simple editor always replaces the % character when you edit it not when you type text.
Another info%3A

I have figured it out, everytime i press save after editting, 1 % character is exchanged at a time. Beginning from the first position left top corner.

See my next post :

 

[William Gaatjes]

% after first post. This one is still ok. Now i press save in the simple editor.

It is exchanged.
% after edit 1. Now i press save after the next edit in simple editor.
It is exchanged.
% after edit 2. Now i press save after the next edit in simple editor.
It is exchanged. It now took almost 30 seconds to get a response from the website.
And the next character did not change.
% after edit 3. I pressed edit again in the simple editor and again it was exchanged and the response time of the website was only a few seconds.

% after edit 4.
% after edit 5.

When the forum site is updating the text and the response is quick, the problem arises.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Now in advanced editor

% 1
% 2
% 3
% 4
% 5
% 6

Nothing happens in the advanced editor.

 

[ViRGE]

AT's ever-amazing web developer John Campion has beat on our copy of vB and reminded it who's boss. As a result the % issue should be fixed. Please let us know if you still see this issue.

 

[sandorski]

Sweet. 100&#37 better than Fusetalk!

 

[eits]

yaaay! it seems fixed!

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[Jeff7]

AT's ever-amazing web developer John Campion has beat on our copy of vB and reminded it who's boss. As a result the % issue should be fixed. Please let us know if you still see this issue.

Now that his work is done, he can gallantly beat off into the sunset.




:hmm:

 

[Cogman]

% fixed? Yay! Fixed!

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks!
Now lets check the other characters ...
äÄ öÖ åÅ & # ½ §
Wondeful!
I appreciate all the work which has been done.

 

[William Gaatjes]

%%% %%%

Yahooo