Non-standard characters in comic's name

Lupus Ignis · Post by **Lupus Ignis** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:18 am

Hi all.

I'm currently moving my comic from lupusignis.keenspace.com to vedrblaka.keenspace.com, and am encountering a peculiar problem: When I in Siteatmin write the comic name "Ve

Kris X · Post by **Kris X** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:10 am

Here's my guess. Standard/Default submition tends to avoid complicated symbols and commands. Unfortunately then, it converts to gibberish. Best bet would be to pick a simipliar name or text and when you create the site, make the name plate not a tag, but a banner image so you can have it as you wish. Make sense?

Lupus Ignis · Post by **Lupus Ignis** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:54 pm

It does. Except for the fact that it worked in the first place (on my old site), and seems to (sometimes) accept EITHER the

Lupus Ignis · Post by **Lupus Ignis** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:16 pm

Strange. Now it seems to work. I tried from my mac once again, and by hitting "submit" twice, convinced Keen that that was actually what I wanted to name the comic...

Post by **Kisai** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:36 pm

There is code in the system to prevent non-english characters from being used in the title, author name, and stuff because it crashes anything that reads the rss.xml file. I did have a code/decode thing in there, which is wh you see stuff like apos, quot, because it tries to convert it to xml safe.

You can bypass this behavior by putting the name as a unicode CDATA character, I'm not sure if this is what the browser did. Basically it sends it to keenspace as ࠭ (or whatever it is in unicode) instead of the accented character.