[milandro]

Few days ago I noticed that we underwent some sort of " migration" and then I started noticing that some of my posts were strangely scrambled with strange text signs .

This has happened before (long ago) and I am not sure that it is due to the last maintenance or migration but the funny thing is that it seems to be affecting only my posts!

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However the notion that they were being “ repaired� to be sold is of course based on “ hearsay�.

Curiously I am about to write an article on an Italian Music Magazine about Roland Kirk’s instruments and would be very interested to verify if indeed this was the case.

As far as I know Kirk had several versions of some of his horns so it is also possible that some were indeed brought back to normal (The most rare of those for example the Stritch) but he certainly had several tenors.

 

[Pete Thomas]

As there will be a change of forum software coming up imminenetly, there are likely to be more charset issues in database and we would hope they are all addressed in the migration process.
@VSadmin

 

[milandro]

hopefully , also other older parts of the forum have undergone , in the past, such issues and they have never been fixed

 

[Pete Thomas]

Looks like this is fixed, at least in the post you quoted

 

[mrpeebee]

Yes, that is a typical "attic room developer" issue if they use wrong code-page (character-set) definitions/translations while moving data from other (old) platforms.

 

[milandro]

Yes, one of the very good effect of the migration was this!

I haven’t come across pages that had wrong codes issues previous to the ones I was talking about, they did exist (and they were produced by not so quite careful migrations of the past)