Phew, We're back. Options

[stargelman]

In case you wondered why chorrol was down, both harddrives in the server had died. It was lucky I could get back anything at all, not to mention this quickly.

My thanks go to the support of our webhoster who worked miracles, and to my girlfriend who had to suffer through agonizing hours of me cursing my lungs out.

Oh well. More and better backups next time, I guess.

[Acadian]

I'm seeing some unusual stuff on my display. Some posts made before we went down are displaying lots of little question marks inside little black diamonds instead of apostrophe's dashes and sometimes even between sentences. I've tried viewing things on both Firefox and Internet Explorer and see the same thing.

Here is a representative snip from hazmick's latest episode of his fanfic story. Is anyone else seeing the question mark symbols?

�I didn�t expect to see you down here in the early morning madness.� A cheery voice called out from behind me. I knew it was Ailinwe even before I turned around to greet her.

�Just stretching my legs, looking for something to eat.� I could barely hear myself over the din, but Altmer�s ears are obviously not just for show.

[SubRosa]

I'm seeing some unusual stuff on my display. Some posts made before we went down are displaying lots of little question marks inside little black diamonds instead of apostrophe's dashes and sometimes even between sentences. I've tried viewing things on both Firefox and Internet Explorer and see the same thing.

Here is a representative snip from hazmick's latest episode of his fanfic story. Is anyone else seeing the question mark symbols?

�I didn�t expect to see you down here in the early morning madness.� A cheery voice called out from behind me. I knew it was Ailinwe even before I turned around to greet her.

�Just stretching my legs, looking for something to eat.� I could barely hear myself over the din, but Altmer�s ears are obviously not just for show.

I get that too (with Firefox). If you change your Character Encoding from Unicode to Western, the gobbledy-gook symbols will all vanish. In Firefox go to your Menu Bar -> View -> Character Encoding -> Western.

[Acadian]

I get that too (with Firefox). If you change your Character Encoding from Unicode to Western, the gobbledy-gook symbols will all vanish. In Firefox go to your Menu Bar -> View -> Character Encoding -> Western.

Thank you. That worked and fixed the page I was viewing. I navigated away from the page, came back and the problem returned. I figured out that is because as soon as I navigate away from the page, Firefox bumps the setting from Western right back to Unicode. Do you know a way to make it stay on Western after I change it instead of returning to Unicode?

[SubRosa]

I get that too (with Firefox). If you change your Character Encoding from Unicode to Western, the gobbledy-gook symbols will all vanish. In Firefox go to your Menu Bar -> View -> Character Encoding -> Western.

Thank you. That worked and fixed the page I was viewing. I navigated away from the page, came back and the problem returned. I figured out that is because as soon as I navigate away from the page, Firefox bumps the setting from Western right back to Unicode. Do you know a way to make it stay on Western after I change it instead of returning to Unicode?

I cannot get it to stay either. It looks like it is just the way Firefox is built. I think it supposed to automatically detect the right character set. But for some reason it isn't working.