No power in the 'verse can stop me.

River ,'War Stories'


Buffistas Building a Better Board ++

Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.


Tom Scola - Apr 05, 2016 3:43:46 pm PDT #3791 of 4671
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

testing: é → ðŸ‰


Jon B. - Apr 05, 2016 7:01:50 pm PDT #3792 of 4671
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Given that the line before is

$_SESSION['_user'] = $user;

and these StackOverflow answers, I think we're OK.

testing: é → ðŸ‰

Is that a watermelon?


Jon B. - Apr 05, 2016 7:05:31 pm PDT #3793 of 4671
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

And this would seem to confirm that that line was redundant. [link]


Beverly - Apr 06, 2016 7:52:03 am PDT #3794 of 4671
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I'm getting black diamonds with a question mark in place of the 'e' in risque and frisque in the Bitches thread title. Everything else seems fine.


Steph L. - Apr 06, 2016 9:27:19 am PDT #3795 of 4671
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I'm geting that, too.


Tom Scola - Apr 06, 2016 9:36:33 am PDT #3796 of 4671
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Yep, that's what I was testing above.

It looks like after the cutover, data is being written to the database with a different encoding than before. So new posts will be OK, but old posts will look funny.

For the thread titles and sluglines, a mod could go and edit them, and then they should be OK.

The pedant in me wants to go through every record in the database, check the encoding, and recode it if necessary. But that would be a lot of work, and risk, for something with only a small amount of benefit.


Laura - Apr 06, 2016 12:47:27 pm PDT #3797 of 4671
Our wings are not tired.

I fixed the Bitches é issue.


dcp - Apr 07, 2016 1:34:07 pm PDT #3798 of 4671
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

On buffistas.org/index.php I'm seeing the black diamond with question mark in the description text for Buffista Music 4, after "Mekons"


Laura - Apr 07, 2016 3:15:18 pm PDT #3799 of 4671
Our wings are not tired.

What should it be?


Tom Scola - Apr 07, 2016 3:43:55 pm PDT #3800 of 4671
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

An em dash: —