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Is this a Bug or is it related to the browser.
A recent minitar [1] edit shows garbage characters between
REALTEK(RTL8181)AT and 11:22:57 CST 2003 VERSION 1.0 .
Displayed below hopefully...
- ---RealTek(RTL8181)at
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version 1.0 + ---RealTek(RTL8181)at
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7 11:22:57 CST 2003 version 1.0
Interestingly, it appears to morph into something else while toggling
between PREVIEW and EDIT TEXT ,and also reproduces itself. Perhaps
it's something to do with the preview mode although the next occurence
was (I think) before the preview was introduced.
They also show up in Connecting To The Network FAQ [2] under CONVERT
DEGREES, MINUTES, AND SECONDS TO DECIMAL DEGREES - apparently the
degrees symbol won't display and conjures up a replacement
-## Divide the decimal minutes by 60 to convert them to decimal
degrees, and add them to the ABSOLUTE whole number of degrees, then
apply the correct sign. For example, for lat.
-37����?�������°
50' 43.53603", do 50.7256 / 60 = 0.8454; 37 + 0.8454 =
37.8454����?�������°;
apply sign
-37.8454����?�������°.
For long.
145����?�������°
5' 31.85668", do 5.5309 / 60 = 0.0922; 145 + 0.0922 =
145.0922����?�������°;
apply sign
+145.0922����?�������°.
I know first hand about the last one as I reimported the relevant
section and it appeared to be fine straight after the import, it's
since morphed into the garbage characters again.
I'm currently viewing using IE5 version 6.0.26 under win2000. The
edit I refer to fixing above was Mozilla 1.6(?) under Linux Fedora
core 1.
graybeard [3]
Okay, you've got me stumped. I think this bug is probably related to
unicode character translations. All of the wiki backend is written in
ASCII, but it wouldn't suprise me if the browser reinterpreted some of
the ASCII as Unicode/ANSI. I'm using Mozilla Firefox 0.8, and when I
look in the View menu under the Character Coding submenu I can see
that UNICODE (UTF-8) is selected. If someone gets a chance to play,
let me know if you can narrow this down a little more.
tc [4]
Links:
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[1] http://melbournewireless.org.au/wiki/?diff=minitar
[2]
http://melbournewireless.org.au/wiki/?diff=ConnectingToTheNetworkFAQ
[3] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?GlennMcKechnie
[4] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?TysonClugg
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