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Encoding glitch on homepage #440

Closed frediy closed 9 years ago

frediy commented 9 years ago

From notifyj...@gmail.com on August 23, 2012 10:56:59

Visiting the homepage gives me some weird characters where the ellipsis should be in front of "And a promoter of regular meetups around the world."

Confirmed on Ubuntu with Google Chrome and Mac OS X with Safari. http://imgur.com/yUjNy

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/lesswrong/issues/detail?id=342

frediy commented 9 years ago

From wjmo...@gmail.com on August 22, 2012 23:32:52

Worked around by changing ellipsis entity on wiki to: ...

Status: Fixed

frediy commented 9 years ago

From notifyj...@gmail.com on August 23, 2012 01:20:52

I thought of that, but it occurred to me that it might be a symptom of some deeper issue, so I left it alone. I guess if there weren't any recent code changes that could've been responsible for this then that's all you can do, eh.

frediy commented 9 years ago

From wjmo...@gmail.com on August 23, 2012 15:33:44

Its certainly a bug. I think the library that parses the HTML from the wiki is turning the &hellips; entity into a unicode character but that encoding isn't being preserved when the final page is constructed. Given the easy workaround I decided it was best just to do that instead of spending time (and money) on tracking the problem down.