User talk:Fabartus/unicode bug

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Purp: Document effects seen in IE6 and Firefox while yelling for help!

Diff: This version after attempting to eliminate spurious verticle whitespace due to indentation in email editor 'source edit' window (Outlook Express, V-6)... See prior version too: user_talk:fabartus/unicode_bug_alt.

Contact targets: User: Patrick, User: CesarB and User: CBDunkerson (by direct email)

Note: I massaged this as best I could using notepad, particularly to cut down unnecessary verticle whitespace caused by 'space preceded <xxx> commands, but one effect is much of the text that was WYSIWIG copies is now in grey boxed offseted format. Pre-space truncated version is User talk:fabartus/unicode_bug_alt, which is less this note and the intervening preview. Both miss wide the message sense and flow of the full WYSIWYG email version formatting I'm about to send to Conrad. //FrankB 17:59, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

This is HTML paste-up
of observed problem behaviors, apparently caused by changes installed by user Patrick in {{space}} and ported by me to {{indent}}, alas, including to the commons versions... where I originated the 'space' test this morning to test other manifestations I noticed on article spaces (or talks?).

Contents

[edit] The Email

<html>

Help!
 
This all apparently begins with Patrick's changes

to to incorporate {{{1}}}... Only God knows how many pages are suddenly 'broken' between en.wikipedia and the commons! (At least should mainly

be talks, at this juncture!)
 
Help! Mysterious font/formatting affects

attacking my sanity! (See note below on 'my IE6 browser' paranoia before acting!

Scrtch that--make my Windows XP? Also evincing in Firefox!)
 
 
Talk (test to check another observed occurence):
 
==Demo/Test==
#<nowiki> </nowiki>...

x y  1_   z
#<nowiki>  </nowiki>... x  y  2_   z
#<nowiki>   </nowiki>... x   y  3_   z
#<nowiki>     </nowiki>... x     y  4_   z
#<nowiki>     </nowiki>... x     y  5_   z
#<nowiki>      </nowiki>... x      y  6_   z
#<nowiki>       </nowiki>... x       y  7_   z
#<nowiki>        </nowiki>... x        y  8_   z
#<nowiki>         </nowiki>... x         y  9_   z
#<nowiki>          </nowiki>... x          y  10_   z
#<nowiki>           </nowiki>... x           y  11_   z
#<nowiki>            </nowiki>... x            y 

12_   z
 
-Somethings broken! // FrankB 17:59, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Gives:

[edit] Demo/Test

  1.  ... x y 1_   z
  2.   ... xy 2_   z
  3.    ... xy 3_   z
  4.      ... xy 4_   z
  5.      ... xy 5_   z
  6.       ... xy 6_   z
  7.        ... xy 7_   z 
  8.         ... xy 8_   z
  9.          ... xy 9_   z
  10.           ... xy 10_   z
  11.            ... xy 11_   z
  12.             ... xy 12_   z

-Somethings broken! // <A title=User:Fabartus href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fabartus">Fra</A><A title="User talk:Fabartus" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Fabartus">nkB</A> 15:50, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

where we damn well shouldn't be seeing xy, nor    z!!!

My browser??? (paranoia setting in!)

Checking on wikipedia... on my talk I'm getting this (note the
    and [[user talk:[[user talk:{{{1}}}|{{{2}}}]] |[[user talk:{{{1}}}|{{{2}}}]] ]] at end...

Ah, Grasshopper, but
'No day is wasted when

 
one learns something new' —Polgara
On the Commonwealth vs North

 
American English spellings... 
   If 
we all go around fiddling with sections, such alternating or at least 
dis-synchronous spellings will inevitably creep in. Since I've read a ton of 
British writers of history and SF over the years, I frankly have trouble 
knowing whether my usage is one or the other origination unless I really 
think on it... which makes no sense as the message matters, not the form, so 
I just use whatever I put down without typo's.
Better for the stress, and the

 
productivity. 
   (My 
health-nut brother, a researcher in aging matters, in top physical shape, 
just had an emergency heart procedure despite innumerable lectures and his 
own exemplary example of things like commuting to work 3X a week by bicycle 
(over the short 38 miles of commute!). If all that exercise and healthy diet 
didn't help him, the rest of us should by rights be doomed! But stress...) 

   The 
job stress is a trump card. This is a real eye-opener to me and a shock 
to everyone that knows him at all! Moral: reduce stress always!
Have you seen one of the so called

 
'Manglish' (Mangled English) humor emails that circulate from time to time 
where the letters are really switched around in the words, yet the 
paragraph's are entirely understandable? If that works (scientific fact, not 
just a trick joke in some carefully contrived text) in the brain to extract 
the comprehension, I'm sure not gonna waste my time worrying about an 's' 
vs. a 'z', and extra vowel, etc. 
   Maybe 
once we get WYSIWIG editing we'll all have the same spell checkers. I rarely 
resort to one, so I'm sure my composition behaviours includes many <A 
title="Commonwealth English" 
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_English">commonwealth English</A> spellings. Some days I'm lucky to get the 
syntax in links correct! Shrug!
('See this' msg post to [[user talk:[[user talk:{{{1}}}|{{{2}}}]] |[[user talk:{{{1}}}|{{{2}}}]] ]])
However in 'preview', vice 'saved' display mode, note the diffs one

 
'save click' away in time!


 
Ah, Grasshopper, but
'No day is wasted when one learns something new' —Polgara
On the Commonwealth vs North American English spellings...
  
  If we all go around fiddling with sections, 
such alternating or at least dis-synchronous spellings will inevitably creep 
in. Since I've read a ton of British writers of history and SF over the 
years, I frankly have trouble knowing whether my usage is one or the other 
origination unless I really think on it... which makes no sense as the 
message matters, not the form, so I just use whatever I put down without 
typo's.
Better for the stress, and the productivity.
    (My health-nut brother, a researcher in aging 
matters, in top physical shape, just had an emergency heart procedure 
despite innumerable lectures and his own exemplary example of things like 
commuting to work 3X a week by bicycle (over the short 38 miles of 
commute!). If all that exercise and healthy diet didn't help him, the rest 
of us should by rights be doomed! But stress...)
    The job stress is a trump card. This is a real 
eye-opener to me and a shock to everyone that knows him at all! Moral: 
reduce stress always!
Have you seen one of the so called 'Manglish' (Mangled English) humor 
emails that circulate from time to time where the letters are really 
switched around in the words, yet the paragraph's are entirely 
understandable? If that works (scientific fact, not just a trick joke in 
some carefully contrived text) in the brain to extract the comprehension, 
I'm sure not gonna waste my time worrying about an 's' vs. a 'z', and extra 
vowel, etc.
    Maybe once we get WYSIWIG 
editing we'll all have the same spell checkers. I rarely resort to one, so 
I'm sure my composition behaviours includes many <A 
title="Commonwealth English" 
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_English">commonwealth 
English</A> spellings. Some days I'm lucky to get the syntax in links 
correct! Shrug!
'See this to <A title="User talk:CmdrObot" 
 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:CmdrObot">CmdrObot</A>
I'm also now seeing a square rectangle where all

the
    evince in this 'unicoded' version pasted herein to Outlook Express.  Checking that by edit/preview on Firefox we

get:
 
Ah, Grasshopper, but
'No day is wasted when one learns something new'

 
—Polgara
On the Commonwealth vs North American English spellings...
  
  If we all go around fiddling with sections, 
such alternating or at least dis-synchronous spellings will inevitably creep 
in. Since I've read a ton of British writers of history and SF over the 
years, I frankly have trouble knowing whether my usage is one or the other 
origination unless I really think on it... which makes no sense as the 
message matters, not the form, so I just use whatever I put down without 
typo's.
Better for the stress, and the productivity.
    (My health-nut brother, a researcher in aging 
matters, in top physical shape, just had an emergency heart procedure 
despite innumerable lectures and his own exemplary example of things like 
commuting to work 3X a week by bicycle (over the short 38 miles of 
commute!). If all that exercise and healthy diet didn't help him, the rest 
of us should by rights be doomed! But stress...)
More square rectangles for me.
I just reverted Patrick's guts in


on

en.wikipedia, in preview I now see:
 
Ah, Grasshopper, but
'No day is wasted when

 
one learns something new' —Polgara
On the Commonwealth vs North

 
American English spellings...
    If we all go around fiddling with 
sections, such alternating or at least dis-synchronous spellings will 
inevitably creep in. Since I've read a ton of British writers of history and 
SF over the years, I frankly have trouble knowing whether my usage is one or 
the other origination unless I really think on it... which makes no sense as 
the message matters, not the form, so I just use whatever I put down without 
typo's.
Better for the stress, and the

 
productivity.
    (My health-nut brother, a researcher in aging
matters,
Which Has NO Squares showing up...
 
And is also behaving properly in both browsers outside edit-preview.
 
Frank

<clear all>

[edit] Nowiki version

paste up yourselves?

</nowiki>

Help!
 
This all apparently begins with Patrick's changes

to to incorporate {{{1}}}... Only God knows how many pages are suddenly 'broken' between en.wikipedia and the commons! (At least should mainly

be talks, at this juncture!)
 
Help! Mysterious font/formatting affects

attacking my sanity! (See note below on 'my IE6 browser' paranoia before acting!

Scrtch that--make my Windows XP? Also evincing in Firefox!)
 
 
Talk (test to check another observed occurence):
 
==Demo/Test==
#<nowiki> </nowiki>...

x y  1_   z
#<nowiki>  </nowiki>... x  y  2_   z
#<nowiki>   </nowiki>... x   y  3_   z
#<nowiki>     </nowiki>... x     y  4_   z
#<nowiki>     </nowiki>... x     y  5_   z
#<nowiki>      </nowiki>... x      y  6_   z
#<nowiki>       </nowiki>... x       y  7_   z
#<nowiki>        </nowiki>... x        y  8_   z
#<nowiki>         </nowiki>... xspacey  9_spacez
#<nowiki>space</nowiki>... xspacey  10_sz
#<nowiki>space</nowiki>... xspacey  11_sz
#<nowiki>space</nowiki>... xspacey 

12_sz
 
-Somethings broken! // FrankB 17:59, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Gives:

[edit] Demo/Test

  1. space... x y 1_   z
  2. space... xspacey 2_sz
  3. space... xspacey 3_sz
  4. space... xspacey 4_sz
  5. space... xspacey 5_sz
  6. space... xspacey 6_sz
  7. space... xspacey 7_sz 
  8. space... xspacey 8_sz
  9. space... xspacey 9_sz
  10. space... xspacey 10_sz
  11. space... xspacey 11_sz
  12. space... xspacey 12_sz

-Somethings broken! // <A title=User:Fabartus href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fabartus">Fra</A><A title="User talk:Fabartus" href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Fabartus">nkB</A> 15:50, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

where we damn well shouldn't be seeing xspacey, nor sz!!!

My browser??? (paranoia setting in!)

Checking on wikipedia... on my talk I'm getting this (note the i and ut at end...

Ah, Grasshopper, but
'No day is wasted when

 
one learns something new' —Polgara
On the Commonwealth vs North

 
American English spellings... iIf 
we all go around fiddling with sections, such alternating or at least 
dis-synchronous spellings will inevitably creep in. Since I've read a ton of 
British writers of history and SF over the years, I frankly have trouble 
knowing whether my usage is one or the other origination unless I really 
think on it... which makes no sense as the message matters, not the form, so 
I just use whatever I put down without typo's.
Better for the stress, and the

 
productivity. i(My 
health-nut brother, a researcher in aging matters, in top physical shape, 
just had an emergency heart procedure despite innumerable lectures and his 
own exemplary example of things like commuting to work 3X a week by bicycle 
(over the short 38 miles of commute!). If all that exercise and healthy diet 
didn't help him, the rest of us should by rights be doomed! But stress...) 
iThe 
job stress is a trump card. This is a real eye-opener to me and a shock 
to everyone that knows him at all! Moral: reduce stress always!
Have you seen one of the so called

 
'Manglish' (Mangled English) humor emails that circulate from time to time 
where the letters are really switched around in the words, yet the 
paragraph's are entirely understandable? If that works (scientific fact, not 
just a trick joke in some carefully contrived text) in the brain to extract 
the comprehension, I'm sure not gonna waste my time worrying about an 's' 
vs. a 'z', and extra vowel, etc. iMaybe 
once we get WYSIWIG editing we'll all have the same spell checkers. I rarely 
resort to one, so I'm sure my composition behaviours includes many <A 
title="Commonwealth English" 
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_English">commonwealth English</A> spellings. Some days I'm lucky to get the 
syntax in links correct! Shrug!
('See this' msg post to ut)
However in 'preview', vice 'saved' display mode, note the diffs one

 
'save click' away in time!


 
Ah, Grasshopper, but
'No day is wasted when one learns something new' —Polgara
On the Commonwealth vs North American English spellings...
  
  If we all go around fiddling with sections, 
such alternating or at least dis-synchronous spellings will inevitably creep 
in. Since I've read a ton of British writers of history and SF over the 
years, I frankly have trouble knowing whether my usage is one or the other 
origination unless I really think on it... which makes no sense as the 
message matters, not the form, so I just use whatever I put down without 
typo's.
Better for the stress, and the productivity.
    (My health-nut brother, a researcher in aging 
matters, in top physical shape, just had an emergency heart procedure 
despite innumerable lectures and his own exemplary example of things like 
commuting to work 3X a week by bicycle (over the short 38 miles of 
commute!). If all that exercise and healthy diet didn't help him, the rest 
of us should by rights be doomed! But stress...)
    The job stress is a trump card. This is a real 
eye-opener to me and a shock to everyone that knows him at all! Moral: 
reduce stress always!
Have you seen one of the so called 'Manglish' (Mangled English) humor 
emails that circulate from time to time where the letters are really 
switched around in the words, yet the paragraph's are entirely 
understandable? If that works (scientific fact, not just a trick joke in 
some carefully contrived text) in the brain to extract the comprehension, 
I'm sure not gonna waste my time worrying about an 's' vs. a 'z', and extra 
vowel, etc.
    Maybe once we get WYSIWIG 
editing we'll all have the same spell checkers. I rarely resort to one, so 
I'm sure my composition behaviours includes many <A 
title="Commonwealth English" 
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_English">commonwealth 
English</A> spellings. Some days I'm lucky to get the syntax in links 
correct! Shrug!
'See this to <A title="User talk:CmdrObot" 
 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:CmdrObot">CmdrObot</A>
I'm also now seeing a square rectangle where all

the i evince in this 'unicoded' version pasted herein to Outlook Express.  Checking that by edit/preview on Firefox we

get:
 
Ah, Grasshopper, but
'No day is wasted when one learns something new'

 
—Polgara
On the Commonwealth vs North American English spellings...
  
  If we all go around fiddling with sections, 
such alternating or at least dis-synchronous spellings will inevitably creep 
in. Since I've read a ton of British writers of history and SF over the 
years, I frankly have trouble knowing whether my usage is one or the other 
origination unless I really think on it... which makes no sense as the 
message matters, not the form, so I just use whatever I put down without 
typo's.
Better for the stress, and the productivity.
    (My health-nut brother, a researcher in aging 
matters, in top physical shape, just had an emergency heart procedure 
despite innumerable lectures and his own exemplary example of things like 
commuting to work 3X a week by bicycle (over the short 38 miles of 
commute!). If all that exercise and healthy diet didn't help him, the rest 
of us should by rights be doomed! But stress...)
More square rectangles for me.
I just reverted Patrick's guts in indent on en.wikipedia, in preview I now see:
 
Ah, Grasshopper, but
'No day is wasted when

 
one learns something new' —Polgara
On the Commonwealth vs North

 
American English spellings...
    If we all go around fiddling with 
sections, such alternating or at least dis-synchronous spellings will 
inevitably creep in. Since I've read a ton of British writers of history and 
SF over the years, I frankly have trouble knowing whether my usage is one or 
the other origination unless I really think on it... which makes no sense as 
the message matters, not the form, so I just use whatever I put down without 
typo's.
Better for the stress, and the

 
productivity.
    (My health-nut brother, a researcher in aging
matters,
Which Has NO Squares showing up...
 
And is also behaving properly in both browsers outside edit-preview.
 
Frank

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