Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 15264
Why the  before the £ ?
I've noticed in many post recently that when there's a '£' sign, in a lot of occassions its prefixed with an 'Â'
as below:
Quote:
£20
Is this something in my settings ?...... always on the road less travelled 🚧
9th Dec 2009 4:48 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 73085
I've got that on the iPod. Thought it was just me, or the heat getting to said device!!!
9th Dec 2009 4:50 pm
DG Site Moderator
Member Since: 12 Dec 2005
Location: The Gaff
Posts: 50978
It's a result of the big crash a few weeks back ron ...it's all over the site like a rash 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
9th Dec 2009 4:52 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 73085
Wot, a crash rash or a rash crash???
Don't mind me, the heat's getting to me!
9th Dec 2009 4:58 pm
TazDaz
Member Since: 07 May 2007
Location: South East Essex
Posts: 2858
I was going to post about this ... Ron, you beat me to it.
I've also seen this on a couple of other forums I visit - at first I thought it was the IE8 browser in Windows 7 but it happens with Firefox, Safari & Chrome too
9th Dec 2009 6:08 pm
Martin Site Admin and Owner
Member Since: 06 Nov 2004
Location: Hook Norton
Posts: 18563
It's an encoding fault, when the big crash happened the database was rebuilt using a slightly different encoding, giving the leading Â. I have tried to apply a fix, but it actually made it worse (so I reversed it).
As it's not causing the site to be unusable, and it's still easily read as a pound sign, so I'm not too concerned about it at the moment.
It's on the list to get sorted, but would require the site to be closed for a few hours to rebuild the database again. 06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
Any issues with the site let me know!
9th Dec 2009 6:39 pm
Martin Site Admin and Owner
Member Since: 06 Nov 2004
Location: Hook Norton
Posts: 18563
Sorry chaps, trying to get something off the server and crashed the database 06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
Any issues with the site let me know!
9th Dec 2009 7:19 pm
TazDaz
Member Since: 07 May 2007
Location: South East Essex
Posts: 2858
Site's been very slow since 18:30 ish - then I got phpBB critical errors @ 19:00
Then it vanished
Nice to see it back so soon tho
9th Dec 2009 7:22 pm
Martin Site Admin and Owner
Member Since: 06 Nov 2004
Location: Hook Norton
Posts: 18563
At 8???06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
Any issues with the site let me know!
9th Dec 2009 7:22 pm
TazDaz
Member Since: 07 May 2007
Location: South East Essex
Posts: 2858
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
...it's all over the site like a rash 
