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ElanorTX
Tol Eressea
Nov 25 2014, 5:04pm
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Maybe Orom� the Great can read this script
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but I'm having a hard time!
Just returning to the boards, I'm finding that accented characters are appearing respelled with some other code, as seen in the subject line. You've probably already discussed this topic, but I would appreciate enlightenment (or an edict to use characters without accents).
Thank you for your prescience, O mods.
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Ataahua
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Nov 25 2014, 6:08pm
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in Basic Editor with the Post Style changed to Markup and HTML? If not, would you give that a try and see if it works?
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dernwyn
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Nov 25 2014, 10:11pm
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...it's her browser not displaying things like the accented letters correctly. Some words for her look like one of our unedited News from Bree posts. 
Didn't someone at some point have a recommendation for how to read the strange fonts - use a different browser, or download something?
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Magpie
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Nov 25 2014, 10:49pm
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There are multiple causes and multiple 'fixes' which might or might not work ...
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... since it's hard to identify the cause. It's kind of throwing various darts at the problem till one of them works.
The first thing I'd check is that Elanor's browser is up to date.
Elanor, what browser are you using? That will help us direct you in figuring out how to determine if your browser is up to date and/or how to update it.
Caveat: I am just someone who used to have this problem so I'm a bit familiar with the issue. But there are people with higher tech abilities for me so if they step in... I direct your attention to them. :-)
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ElanorTX
Tol Eressea
Nov 25 2014, 11:11pm
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yes, the problem is reading others' posts, and
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I'm using what should be the latest Firefox. I reset it a few days ago to try to solve a problem with crashes.
JRRT certainly was fond of "e" with an acute accent  especially for the Rohirrim  I can mentally sub the correct spelling, but it gets tedious and slow.
Thanks for any advice.
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Cirashala
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Nov 25 2014, 11:38pm
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my uncle works extensively with computers, and he informed me that the recent firefox update 33.1.1 is actually a scam, and went through his workplace last week.
It's a pretty nasty virus, hiding under the guise of being a firefox update, so I would run a virus scan if I were you and see if that solves your problem 
If not, then it's probably something else. But as soon as I saw that you were using the latest version from a couple days ago, I thought I'd let you know
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Magpie
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Nov 26 2014, 3:41am
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If you think your browser is up to date...
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then I would suggest a few things.
Link us to one of the posts where you're seeing glitches to insure that no one else is, either. The fault might not be on your end.
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If you have another browser installed, like Internet Explorer, try it with that browser. I'm not sure I can say what to do with that info but other more tech savvy people might want the info.
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Here is (I think) the most recent request for help on this problem. Inferno provided some suggestions:
http://newboards.theonering.net/...i?post=640759#640759
In that thread, I found and linked to an older thread on the subject.
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do a google search > firefox characters not displaying correctly
And see if any of the suggestions in those help. It can be a bit daunting.
One suggestion on this page says to clear your cache:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1013307
and walks you through the process.
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for what's its worth, I had a continual problem with this when I was using Firefox. It was one of the reasons I stopped using it.
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ElanorTX
Tol Eressea
Dec 2 2014, 8:59pm
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Oromë is still the Great, and after a trip to the Houses of Healing
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(unnamed store) my computer can read the strange letters once again
Apparently a glitch or goblin had crept into my software, probably the Firefox browser as you suggested. Everything's reinstalled and thanks for all the fish.
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(This post was edited by ElanorTX on Dec 2 2014, 9:07pm)
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