Question about the forum for all of you

[Quijote]

Looking at my post above, the letters with accents are replaced by a question mark. Does it appear that way to you, too?

[Quijote]

Or is it a post-Brexit strategy to do away with fancy European spelling conventions? Hah !!

[Sorrano]

There's probably a setting to display the accents, etc., but I could not it. It might be a global setting that Chris could set.

[Quijote]

OK, thanks Sorrano. Hope you are well, by the way.

[Sorrano]

I'm doing okay, thanks! Hope you are well. I've had some asthma in the last few years, so that's been a bummer.

[Chris]

Actually, there is one thing I noticed: it seems that I can't use accents such as umlauts, e-acute, e-grave, etc.
I give an example of each to show you what I mean:
- Sch?nberg (with o-umlaut);
- Faur? (with e-acute);
- Fr?re (with e-grave on the first "e").

Were you able to do that on the old version of the forum?

[Quijote]

Yes, I was.

[Chris]

Hm, that's odd. It may be related to some other issues with text in the database that I have been seeing. I will look into this, because it should work.

[Sorrano]

Hm, that's odd. It may be related to some other issues with text in the database that I have been seeing. I will look into this, because it should work.

Could individual setting prevent the display of the characters?

[Chris]

Could individual setting prevent the display of the characters?

No, I think it's a combination of database character set problems and another setting. It's not trivial to fix, but I'll get it sorted out.

[Quijote]

Thanks!

[Megan]

Why don't we have orange stripes beneath our avatars with posts well over 2000 ? One new member has stripes with 40 posts.

[Megan]

I found the board won't let me use accents above a letter , as in the name, Durufle, which should have an accent above the ' e ' .

[Harvey]

On some forums I can copy and paste a word with the accents from elsewhere, but in this forum that did not even work as here is what happens to the accented e when I do that, though it shows the accent in the preview, it changes to a ? when I post it:

Durufl?

[Megan]

On some forums I can copy and paste a word with the accents from elsewhere, but in this forum that did not even work as here is what happens to the accented e when I do that, though it shows the accent in the preview, it changes to a ? when I post it:

Durufl?

Exactly , I copied and pasted from the BBC Radio 3 programme to this site , but it wouldn't do the accented e. How odd. I like to try and get the spelling right.