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Zakilevo

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Squares around letters
« Topic Start: January 07, 2012, 01:57:41 AM »
I don't know what is going on but my BM website has squares at the end of some paragraphs. They are sometimes on top of letters or numbers.

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Re: Squares around letters
« Reply #1: January 07, 2012, 03:15:20 AM »
Are these, perchance, always sent by the same person?
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Re: Squares around letters
« Reply #2: January 07, 2012, 03:44:09 AM »
The one he posted was a game message about the shadow government. Perhaps he has been playing with the encoding of his browser?
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Re: Squares around letters
« Reply #3: January 07, 2012, 04:11:20 AM »
I've started seeing this a lot, too. Plus some other character-based oddities, too. (Anaris may remember me talking about weird characters on IRC, too. That's new for me.)

What browser do you use? Chrome or Safari? Something to do with a new browser version?
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Re: Squares around letters
« Reply #4: January 07, 2012, 04:36:55 AM »
Chrome. The squares have started to appear just recently. Maybe a month or two ago.
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Re: Squares around letters
« Reply #5: January 07, 2012, 04:56:41 AM »
I have the same problem. It started around a week ago. Chrome.
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Re: Squares around letters
« Reply #6: January 07, 2012, 10:02:53 AM »
Yep. I thought I was the only one! :P

Chrome, same symptoms. And also, when typing in italics, the quotation marks often move out of line, so that they cover the next letter (or vice versa).
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Re: Squares around letters
« Reply #7: January 07, 2012, 11:44:43 AM »
I use both the release branch and the development branch of chrome, always updated to the latest version. I haven't seen a problem.
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Re: Squares around letters
« Reply #8: January 07, 2012, 11:48:49 AM »
Quote from: De-Legro on January 07, 2012, 11:44:43 AM
I use both the release branch and the development branch of chrome, always updated to the latest version. I haven't seen a problem.

Hipster De-Legro :P
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Re: Squares around letters
« Reply #9: January 07, 2012, 12:14:53 PM »
Quote from: Shizzle on January 07, 2012, 11:48:49 AM
Hipster De-Legro :P

The life of web development, particularly if you are trying to develop things using some of the newest HTML 5 features, like indexed DB. Its a constant game of find things that don't work, checking the browser sites to see if a bug report/work around is already posted, waiting for a development release to address the problem and then picking up where you left off.
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Re: Squares around letters
« Reply #10: January 07, 2012, 02:25:34 PM »
Usually a sign of encoding problems. I think we should make an effort to make everything UTF-8.
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Re: Squares around letters
« Reply #11: January 07, 2012, 02:57:18 PM »
Feel free to interpret my comment as ignorance :)
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Re: Squares around letters
« Reply #12: January 07, 2012, 04:00:50 PM »
I can confirm the same issue in Chrome 16.0.912.63 m
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