yay bus is back.. what happened there?

Fieryphoenix · Post by **Fieryphoenix** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 3:59 am

i think it ran away...

swanfaerie · Post by **swanfaerie** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 4:07 am

i'm glad it ran back again

Post by **Jomomma** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:12 am

I'm nto entirely sure what happened but I have having trouble getting on as well.
It's working now though.

Hopefully it will behave properly

Something Else · Post by **Something Else** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:34 am

Busses can't run!

There must have been a flat tire, or maybe engine trouble. My car recently had trouble with its breaks. Could that have been the problem? If there were clunking sound upon breaking, and helicopterish sounds while driving, that was probably what was wrong with the bus.

Or maybe the bus just took a wrong turn.

pinky · Post by **pinky** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:06 am

maybe bus got lost...

blue butterfly · Post by **blue butterfly** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:18 am

Nice to see that bus is back I wonder what happened.

Yaaayyyyyyy

Green Beauty · Post by **Green Beauty** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:32 am

I think it might have been a problem with pbh forums as a whole, as i went looking for another one but had the same problem. Could just be a coincidence, but yeah. Thats my fantastic bit of inspection work

tattybluetrees · Post by **tattybluetrees** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:42 pm

Detective Inspector Alex!

susanM · Post by **susanM** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:47 pm

Ooh naughty BUS. Bad, bad, bad! *wags finger*

Space_Man · Post by **Space_Man** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:35 pm

I missed whatever happened, but I notice that many of my old posts now have all kinds of unexplained question marks in them. For example, prior to the weekend, I might have typed something like this:

â€˜Tis a sad thingâ€”in this lifeâ€”that chocolate does not fall from the sky!!!

â€¦and now I have this:

?Tis a sad thing??in this life??that chocolate does not fall from the sky???

BUS seems to have turned every piece of punctuation that Iâ€™ve ever typed into question marksâ€¦ Has this happened to anyone elseâ€™s postsâ€¦? Please tell me that there is a quick fix for this problemâ€¦

mark · Post by **mark** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:09 pm

PHP's character encoding got set to utf-8, but the database is storing iso-8859-1. I have changed it back to iso-8859-1, but anything in the last few hours has been stored in utf8 (so looks messed up). This was my fault, and occurred whilst upgrading apache.

The reason that it affects your posts is that you are using non-ASCII characters for punctuation, which is a bit weird. For example, instead of the an apostrophe you are using <a href="http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode ... >U+0092</a>.

Not sure how you've persuaded the browser to do that!

mark · Post by **mark** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 7:10 pm

And in response to the original thread the reason that the server was AWOL yesterday was that the bandwidth was down (~1730-0200GMT).

Space_Man · Post by **Space_Man** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:09 pm

Uh…now I’ve got posts (I think just PM's, thus far) littered with this sort of stuff:

Iâ€™

…wherever I’ve previously had punctuation.

mark · Post by **mark** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:36 pm

Yup.

mark wrote:I have changed it back to iso-8859-1, but anything in the last few hours has been stored in utf8 (so looks messed up).

Post by **swirlish** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:50 pm

Mark, that made absolutely no sense to me.

But I'm going to smile and nod. I've found that works best with tech stuff.

susanM · Post by **susanM** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:28 am

Mia thank goodness you said that!

I'm also going to go with just saying thanks very much for sorting it out Mark and I will now go back to smiling and nodding vacantly.

Space_Man · Post by **Space_Man** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:09 pm

mian wrote:I'm going to smile and nod.

susanM wrote:I will now go back to smiling and nodding vacantly.

* joins-in… *

Kabluey · Post by **Kabluey** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:47 pm

I'll say what he means in less technical terms.

he changed a bunch of stuff but some things still look silly because they're stored in a gigantic spagetti maker.

and there's an oven on the loose.

okay that last part was my doing.

yay bus is back.. what happened there?

yay bus is back.. what happened there?

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