topic Re: Garbled characters in forum responses. in Operating System - HP-UX

Garbled characters in forum responses.

Jack C. Mahaffey — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:45:54 GMT

I see alot of garbled characters in forum responses and was wondering the if responses are correct. Here's some exampes:
[ -t 0 ]

Do I have something setup wrong?

Re: Garbled characters in forum responses.

Jeff Schussele — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:49:03 GMT

Hi Jack,

Nope, I suspect these are ASCII codes generated by MS Word or are being misinterpreted by the forum. I think these would be bracket - either curly or angle - can't remember which.
But the point is that it's not you.

Rgds,
Jeff

Re: Garbled characters in forum responses.

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:50:20 GMT

Probably no.

Report these issues here:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=227828
Mention OS and browser version.

SEP

Re: Garbled characters in forum responses.

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:53:08 GMT

That actually happened when the forums were migrated to HP-UX/Oracle from another environment. 91dec = 133octal, 93dec=135octal. A man ascii will then reveal that those are left and right square brackets, respectively.

Re: Garbled characters in forum responses.

Bill Hassell — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 22:00:48 GMT

Historically, the forums have struggled with the handling of non-alphanumeric codes. If you have written (or even read) html code, you'll see the same codes as a method to represent the special characters. Normally, the html interpretation in the web browser will see the codes in the proper context and create the required character. Apparently there are some conversion problems with some postings. The problem doesn't seem to be consistant and based on the number of scripts in this forum, it seems to occur infrequently.

Re: Garbled characters in forum responses.

Kimberly Ann — Sat, 01 Nov 2003 01:36:52 GMT

Hi Jack,

Clay and Bill hit the target. This is something we will have a fix for soon. I've been told by the lab that the reason has been identified, just need to code and test. Please hang in there.

-Dan