Sunday 5 February 2012

Encoding issues

I am slowly working my way through the encoding issues for non-english characters. We're trying to standardise to utf8 for everything. The problem is that not all users are using the same encoding.

The sample on the advanced reader should now be correct. The store encoding issues are now fixed as far as we can tell, and the css worked on a test so we will probably roll out a choice of three style sheets for users to begin with. (A CSS generator presents a few issues, not least making sure that other users don't overwrite an existing style.)

I've also produced an alpha version of a new book badge with squared corners, which should get round the problem of white corners on the current image. Making it transparent failed during tests: 16.7 Million colours to choose from, and it seems that no matter which one I use, someone has used it on their book cover, making transparency create some random and strange effects.

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