WHAT*IS*WRONG*WITH******FIREFOX???

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#1

You see the question, here is explanation ->

Everytime when i post comments on any website around the net my final, submited post looks like this s**t->
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…with millions of star characters instead of empty space between words. I must inmediatelly edit every new post and delete those characters…

I have default, updated GNOME installation of openSUSE 11.0 and only ADBLOCK Plus extension installed. No hacks, no special whatever, so WTF?
And don’t tell me that only me is frustrated by this issue…

#2

Wellithappensonlyeveryothersentenceforme.

Other times it’s normal. Just kidding.

Calm down, there’s probably a rational explanation. But I’ll be d***ed if I can think of one right now.

#3

Likewhat?Forumsdon’t likesAdblockorBeagleindexer*extension?

#4

Sounds unlikely but try disabling them, easy enough to try the experiment. I’d suspect you have the wrong charset set for pages, maybe.

#5

Charset are defaults, no changes were made and extension are now disabled. Anybody else has this problem?

#6

LH6205 wrote:

>
> Charset are defaults, no changes were made and extension are now
> disabled. Anybody else has this problem?
>
>

Looking at the source code of your posts:

you’re sending the string “& # 1 6 0 ;” instead of a space.
(expanded to prevent spurious interpretation)

“& # 1 6 0 ;” is equivalent to “& n b s p ;” A non-breaking space character.
And based on the on-again/off-again nature, it doesn’t really look to be a
charset issue, but more an editor. Are you using any special editor for
textboxes?

The asterisks (*) are presumably the forum interpreter trying to make sense of
the 160 code.

(very funny Ken…)

The forum is sending messages out in the ‘ISO-8859-1’ charset. Checking your
home IP address, shows you’re sending from t-com.sk (Slovakia, Slovak
Republic? Ah, Czeckoslovakia!).

What charset is your Firefox set to as a default. I’m not sure what you might
use for your default there, a quick search brings up these: Kamenicky, PC
Latin 2, ISO Latin 2, KOI-8 CS2 and cp1250.

Deeper search gives Windows-1250 as your default Charset for your world
region.

Ok, it might be a charset issue. Please have a look at that, it’s quite
possible that either you’re sending #160’s instead of spaces, or the forum is
interpreting your Windows-1250 spaces as #160’s. Strange that it’s not
consistant. Shift key being used?

And just to be fair, Ken, you show as being in Australia, and my IP points to
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.

Hope this helps, much of it is educated guessing.

Loni

L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com

#7

(writing from XP, IE7)

Hmm… good analysis :slight_smile: FF3 is indeed using ISO-8859-1 as default charset for central european what is propably something newer than CP1250 windoze’s defaults for ages… Kamenicky, PC Latin 2, ISO Latin 2, KOI-8 CS2 is some ancient MS-DOS crap, but i’m also using MS Natural KB 4000. Could this keyboard send some bad signals? (propably not…)

Anyway regarding your ‘special editor’ i don’t understand what you mean, but when i am posting on forums i cannot use any special editor, only one embeded into this site.

It’s a mystery what is causing this behaviour. It is FF3? Java? Extensions? my keyboard? Hmm…hard to say, but it’s frakin annoying :frowning:

#8

BTW, Czechoslovakia hasn’t existed for a while now. They had a divorce years ago.

#9

mmmm…this post is from Ubuntu 8.04.1 live session… what is your souce code saying now?

btw. ISO-8859-1 is for Western and ISO-8859-2 is Central European default in FF3

#10

Looks ok to me.

#11

LH6205 wrote:

>
> (writing from XP, IE7)
>
> Hmm… good analysis :slight_smile: FF3 is indeed using ISO-8859-1 as default
> charset for central european what is propably something newer than
> CP1250.
> I am also using MS Natural KB 4000. Could this KB send some bad
> signals? (propably not…)
>
> Anyway regarding your ‘special editor’ i don’t understand what you
> mean, but when i am posting on forums i cannot use any special editor,
> only one embeded into this site.
>
>

{Smile} Some people get a freaked out when I do stuff like that. Look at the
source code of the…oooo… you can’t. I’m using nntp, you’re on webforum.
hmmm. interesting!

Ok, your IE7-XP post was perfect, no #160’s. Post again, but with FF3…
let’s see if it’s consistent.

‘Special editor’… there are some plugins/extensions which will allow you to
use something other than the embedded one in the site.

Here’s a question:

If you go to ‘User Control Panel’, find ‘edit options’ in the list on the
left, and go ALLLLLL the way to the bottom…

You’ll see ‘Message Editor Interface’. Which are you set for? Basic,
Standard or Enhanced?

Loni

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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com

#12

ken yap wrote:

>
> BTW, Czechoslovakia hasn’t existed for a while now. They had a divorce
> years ago.
>
>
Hey! I learned something new! Thank you Ken! Slovakia is SO much easier to
spell too. Kinda have to symlink those two in my head, so I can remember…
it was Czecho so many years (!) ago when I learned the countries. Nah, not
that old, I just don’t keep up with things often.

Loni

L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com

#13

LH6205 wrote:

>
> mmmm…this post is from Ubuntu 8.04.1 live session… what is your souce
> code saying now?
>
> btw. ISO-8859-1 is for Western and ISO-8859-2 is Central European
> default in FF3
>
>

Ya, looks great! Of course, it looks great in Ubuntu Live. NOW… we need
to try OpenSuSE.

Showing ISO-8859-1 in the source. I’ve only seen it change to ‘us-ascii’ for
my nntp posts. (and I just figured out how to tell if someone posts via the
forum, or nntp. neat!)

Let’s try opensuse then…

Loni

L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com

#14

I don’tthinkwecandosomethingaboutthis…btw.myeditorissettostandard…

#15

LH6205 wrote:
> I
> don’tthinkwecandosomethingaboutthis…btw.myeditorissettostandard…
>
>
Is there some reason why your space bar doesn’t work? Putting astericks
between every word makes things hard to read and is downright annoying
to look at to boot.

#16

See his first post:)

#17

69_rs_ss wrote:
> LH6205 wrote:
>> I
>> don’tthinkwecandosomethingaboutthis…btw.myeditorissettostandard…
>>
>>
>>
> Is there some reason why your space bar doesn’t work? Putting astericks
> between every word makes things hard to read and is downright annoying
> to look at to boot.
Sorry, didn’t see it was an issue with the encoding.

#18

Tsandu wrote:
> 69_rs_ss;1839080 Wrote:
>> LH6205 wrote:
>>> I
>>>
>> don’tthinkwecandosomethingaboutthis…btw.myeditorissettostandard…
>>>
>> Is there some reason why your space bar doesn’t work? Putting
>> astericks
>> between every word makes things hard to read and is downright annoying
>> to look at to boot.
>
> See his first post:)
>
>
Hence my follow-up post of apology when I figured that out.

#19

Now i am using for Central European encoding CP1250 like in Windows. But i don’tbelieveitisencodingissue.InUbuntuisalsodefeaultISO8859-2forCEencodingandit’sOK…

edit: as can you see, it’s not helping :frowning:

#20

LH6205 wrote:

>
> Now i am using for Central European encoding CP1250 like in Windows. But
> i
>
don’tbelieveitisencodingissue.InUbuntuisalsodefeaultISO8859-2forCEencodingandit’sOK…
>
>
edit: as can you see, it’s not helping
(
>
>

Really at a loss to explain this then. Other suggestions might be to
uninstall firefox, remove your .mozilla subdir (to remove profile), and
reinstall firefox and start anew. (copy your bookmarks.html file out
beforehand though, don’t lose those!)

You could always team up with poor guy posting elsewhere that’s having issues
with his lowercase ‘e’… he can’t type them! Between the two of you, it’d
be wonderful to read! (My apologies, making jest of your problem, shame on
me!)

I don’t know sir. With the exception of wiping your firefox profile and
starting anew, I’m out of ideas.

Loni

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