Gentoo Forums
Gentoo Forums
Gentoo Forums
Quick Search: in
Forums UTF-8 conversion feedback
View unanswered posts
View posts from last 24 hours

Goto page 1, 2  Next  
Reply to topic    Gentoo Forums Forum Index Gentoo Forums Feedback
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
tomk
Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva


Joined: 23 Sep 2003
Posts: 7221
Location: Sat in front of my computer

PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 6:24 pm    Post subject: Forums UTF-8 conversion feedback Reply with quote

If you've got any questions about the recent UTF-8 conversion or you notice any posts that haven't been converted correctly post them here and we'll deal with them on a case-by-case basis.

If you have any problems with your username or Private Messages send an email to forum-mods@gentoo.org.

Mod Edit by NeddySeagoon - fixed typo and stuck
mod edit - stick removed 20080219 -- thinkurs11
_________________
Search | Read | Answer | Report | Strip
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
tsuehpsyde
Tux's lil' helper
Tux's lil' helper


Joined: 28 Jul 2004
Posts: 103

PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Everything looks good guys. Thanks for the hard work, and glad to see the forums back online again. :)
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
tuam
l33t
l33t


Joined: 04 May 2004
Posts: 765
Location: CGN, Germany

PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Will there be a documentation of how you converted everything, and what went wrong the first time?

FF and keep up the good work!

Daniel
_________________
Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. - Spock
The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many. - Kirk
I refuse to let arithmetic decide questions like that. - Picard
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
paulj
Guru
Guru


Joined: 30 Sep 2004
Posts: 507
Location: Wales, UK

PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:58 pm    Post subject: Forums Migration Reply with quote

Thanks gents! Great job. :D
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
i92guboj
Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva


Joined: 30 Nov 2004
Posts: 10315
Location: Córdoba (Spain)

PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Finally: UTF-8 8) Everything seems to be on its correct place.

Thanks! All the -big- effort is appreciated.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
tomk
Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva


Joined: 23 Sep 2003
Posts: 7221
Location: Sat in front of my computer

PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

tuam wrote:
Will there be a documentation of how you converted everything, and what went wrong the first time?

FF and keep up the good work!

Daniel


Yes, I'll be writing up something about the whole process including the problems we encountered along the way, but not just yet, I'm putting my feet up for a couple of days :wink:
_________________
Search | Read | Answer | Report | Strip
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
lefou
Apprentice
Apprentice


Joined: 18 Feb 2004
Posts: 199
Location: Germany, Lusatia

PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Many thanks for you engagement to provide one of the coolest linux forums available. Everything looks good right now but the feeling is that it even looks better than before. :)

Keep up the good work. I would like to read your experiences with the migration, too!
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Drewgrange
Guru
Guru


Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Posts: 483
Location: Ohio, US

PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I apologize if this should be obvious, but what's the main benefit of moving to UTF-8? Is it meant to help with non-english languages?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
i92guboj
Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva


Joined: 30 Nov 2004
Posts: 10315
Location: Córdoba (Spain)

PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Drewgrange wrote:
I apologize if this should be obvious, but what's the main benefit of moving to UTF-8? Is it meant to help with non-english languages?


Unless your browser can auto-adjust the charsets, using more than one is a pain. In a forum like this, where you might be participating in Spanish, English, German, French, Portuguesse and Italian sections (just an example, I am not that smart :lol: ), this is quite a pain in the ass. Not to talk about non-latin alphabets, like Russian or Chinesse.

UTF-8 is the "one charset to rule them all". Besides that, it is the future. It aims to support all the characters contained within all alphabets around the Earth (and I bet that there's any freak out there that is working in Klingon support for it :P ).

It is definitely, the way to go on an international, multilingual, forum.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
padoor
Advocate
Advocate


Joined: 30 Dec 2005
Posts: 4185
Location: india

PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

currently i see that the font size has become smaller in ie. firefox i have not tried yet.

what are things to check if everything ok.
what are things visibly changed. i did not find any difference so far except it is more difficult to read in internet explorer in windows.

this proved that we / atleast i cannot do without the forum uo and running always when i am working with gentoo.
felt was driving a car without a steering wheel

happy welcome back gentoo forums :D :D :D :D :D

worth mention is i lost my X with last upgrade to 1.4 ver server. after lot of thinking re emrging old server 1.3 i found it is needed to emerge all drivers too after server change. now i got back latest x server running nice.
_________________
reach out a little bit more to catch it (DON'T BELIEVE the advocate part under my user name)
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
NathanZachary
Moderator
Moderator


Joined: 30 Jan 2007
Posts: 2598

PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

VERY glad to the have the fora back. I have noticed that it seems to be more responsive now than it used to be, but I don't know how upgrading to MySQL5 would do that. :? Anyway, thank you so much for the hard work! :)
_________________
“Truth, like infinity, is to be forever approached but never reached.” --Jean Ayres (1972)
---avatar cropped from =AimanStudio---
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
think4urs11
Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva


Joined: 25 Jun 2003
Posts: 6659
Location: above the cloud

PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

gentoo_zach wrote:
VERY glad to the have the fora back. I have noticed that it seems to be more responsive now than it used to be, but I don't know how upgrading to MySQL5 would do that. :? Anyway, thank you so much for the hard work! :)

The MySQL5 server is a more powerful, newer machine so that might be one of the reasons.
_________________
Nothing is secure / Security is always a trade-off with usability / Do not assume anything / Trust no-one, nothing / Paranoia is your friend / Think for yourself
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
frenkel
Veteran
Veteran


Joined: 13 May 2003
Posts: 1034
Location: .nl

PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

tomk wrote:
tuam wrote:
Will there be a documentation of how you converted everything, and what went wrong the first time?

FF and keep up the good work!

Daniel


Yes, I'll be writing up something about the whole process including the problems we encountered along the way, but not just yet, I'm putting my feet up for a couple of days :wink:

Good work! It would indeed be nice to read how it went and what went wrong, but take your time, you have earned it! :D
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Diezel
l33t
l33t


Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Posts: 600
Location: Karjaa, Finland

PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i92guboj wrote:

UTF-8 is the "one charset to rule them all". Besides that, it is the future. .

That comment makes me want to watch Lord of the rings again. :)
_________________
A bus station is where a bus stops, a train station is where a train stops. On
my desk I have a work station..
Nixadmins.net
FLUG member 473
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Zagloj
Guru
Guru


Joined: 17 Jun 2005
Posts: 344

PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you guys!!! great work, now I can read Russian forum :lol: ;)
_________________
Your ideology seems to be: "I hate the fanatics, we shoud kill them all" juantxorena dixit.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
duby2291
Guru
Guru


Joined: 17 Oct 2004
Posts: 583

PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm not sure if this is due to the UTF-8 conversion or not, but the forums are --lightning-- fast. Click a link and it opens damn near instant.

Excellent work. Very impressed.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
runningwithscissors
Guru
Guru


Joined: 21 Apr 2006
Posts: 454
Location: the third world

PostPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 3:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

duby2291 wrote:
I'm not sure if this is due to the UTF-8 conversion or not, but the forums are --lightning-- fast. Click a link and it opens damn near instant.

Excellent work. Very impressed.
It's got nothing to do with UTF-8. They've just riced the forums server.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
VinzC
Watchman
Watchman


Joined: 17 Apr 2004
Posts: 5098
Location: Dark side of the mood

PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, I'm going to congrat you guys for the work. I guess it's been a little stressing in the end given the long downtime ;-) . Good work and thank you again.

One little thing to notice though: I receive notifications from the forums in French to my hotmail account. The funny thing is accented characters in the subject line are displayed in the mail list pane as if they were plain ASCII, i.e. an accented 'e' --> 'é' appears as a 'é' :rotfl: ... although hotmail pages are encoded in UTF-8! Now, when I open the message the subject line appears with proper UTF-8 characters... :rotflmfao: (Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Freaking Ass Off) I have no idea on whether it's due to the new Live Hotmail interface.

Ah... TinyWare... Always a good laugh!

EDIT:
Tiny --> Micro
Ware --> Soft
_________________
Gentoo addict: tomorrow I quit, I promise!... Just one more emerge...
1739!


Last edited by VinzC on Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:10 am; edited 1 time in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
VinzC
Watchman
Watchman


Joined: 17 Apr 2004
Posts: 5098
Location: Dark side of the mood

PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i92guboj wrote:
It aims to support all the characters contained within all alphabets around the Earth (and I bet that there's any freak out there that is working in Klingon support for it :P ).

Why only Klingon and not Andorian? Do you, pink faces, have anything against Andorian People?

:lol: ;)
_________________
Gentoo addict: tomorrow I quit, I promise!... Just one more emerge...
1739!
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
ikshaar
Veteran
Veteran


Joined: 23 Jul 2002
Posts: 1339
Location: Baltimore, MD

PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

VinzC wrote:
One little thing to notice though: I receive notifications from the forums in French to my hotmail account. The funny thing is accented characters in the subject line are displayed in the mail list pane as if they were plain ASCII, i.e. an accented 'e' --> 'é' appears as a 'é' :rotfl: ... although hotmail pages are encoded in UTF-8! Now, when I open the message the subject line appears with proper UTF-8 characters... :rotflmfao: (Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Freaking Ass Off) I have no idea on whether it's due to the new Live Hotmail interface.

If it displays fine in one UI and not another, then yes it's probably a bad coding of the UI of Live.
_________________
"May God stands between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk" - Babylon 5
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
tomk
Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva


Joined: 23 Sep 2003
Posts: 7221
Location: Sat in front of my computer

PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

VinzC wrote:
One little thing to notice though: I receive notifications from the forums in French to my hotmail account. The funny thing is accented characters in the subject line are displayed in the mail list pane as if they were plain ASCII, i.e. an accented 'e' --> 'é' appears as a 'é' :rotfl: ... although hotmail pages are encoded in UTF-8! Now, when I open the message the subject line appears with proper UTF-8 characters... :rotflmfao: (Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Freaking Ass Off) I have no idea on whether it's due to the new Live Hotmail interface.


Works for me in mutt so looks like it's Hotmail's problem.
_________________
Search | Read | Answer | Report | Strip
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
VinzC
Watchman
Watchman


Joined: 17 Apr 2004
Posts: 5098
Location: Dark side of the mood

PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sure, it has nothing to do with phpBB, it was so much obvious to me that tech people behind the fora *do* know what they're doing... unlinke TinyWare ;-) .

Sorry for the troll... Just couldn't resist.
_________________
Gentoo addict: tomorrow I quit, I promise!... Just one more emerge...
1739!
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Flammie
Retired Dev
Retired Dev


Joined: 02 Jun 2003
Posts: 633
Location: Dublin, Ireland

PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

VinzC wrote:
i92guboj wrote:
It aims to support all the characters contained within all alphabets around the Earth (and I bet that there's any freak out there that is working in Klingon support for it :P ).

Why only Klingon and not Andorian? Do you, pink faces, have anything against Andorian People?


I suppose Andorian character set is not as well documented. For Klingon there’s¹ at least two normative references and three klingon language books published. Although the request for Klingon was rejected by Unicode committee, it’s now quite stable at private use block.

¹ You can also use apostrophes that are curly with unicode safely now! Yay.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Timz
n00b
n00b


Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Posts: 42
Location: Lyon/Paris - FRANCE

PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm impatient to read your process notes about it.

Also thank you very much for all the job done and the time you take for doing it.
_________________
Gentoo rocks !!!
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
VinzC
Watchman
Watchman


Joined: 17 Apr 2004
Posts: 5098
Location: Dark side of the mood

PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Flammie wrote:
...
I suppose Andorian character set is not as well documented. For Klingon there’s¹ at least two normative references and three klingon language books published. Although the request for Klingon was rejected by Unicode committee, it’s now quite stable at private use block.

¹ You can also use apostrophes that are curly with unicode safely now! Yay.

Do you mean the ones that you've just put in your last two sentences? If so they don't appear curly on my side but I guess that's just because I'm using Arial for my default font?
_________________
Gentoo addict: tomorrow I quit, I promise!... Just one more emerge...
1739!
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Reply to topic    Gentoo Forums Forum Index Gentoo Forums Feedback All times are GMT
Goto page 1, 2  Next
Page 1 of 2

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum