Talk:Items by number (4100-4199)

Does anyone have a clue why the HTML for item 4119 comes out as: 4119. <a href="/thekolwiki/index.php/Old-school_flying_disc" title="Old-school flying disc">old-school flying disc?</a>
(trailing question mark).

The source looks perfectly right and it is the only item that has it (I checked the 4000 others).

My browser is IE8, but I don't think it has anything to do with it. It may be a problem in the page-generation.

Another question is about the use of strange characters in these pages. I would like to show the frigid hankyū as such and not as frigid hankyu. Is this allowed or is there some reason (encoding restriction?) that this is not allowed. Other items with e.g. umlauts in there names are shown properly. --Eliza Dane

• It's a known problem with the way Coldfront's database is configured - it isn't set to use UTF-8 like it should, so using certain special characters results in hard database errors (specifically, "1267: Illegal mix of collations (latin1_bin,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '=' (localhost)"). --Quietust (t|c) 14:22, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Quietust, your knowledge of the system is clearly a lot deeper than mine. Do you have an idea about the first problem?

Did some more analysis about the first problem. At the end of the name there was a Unicode 202E (UTF-8: E280AE, which is a right-to-left override). Pasting this character in an editor likes notepad causes the next paste to run from right to left: U+202E ‮ e2 80 ae RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE It was easily fixed by deleting the offending line and retyping it.Eliza Dane