Let's go to the members area:
Here is sorted initially by date of registration. OK.
I go on sorting by posts, this works.
I go to name or position, I get the following error:

Quote:


I can not go back to the registration date, unless I click on the TAB for members.

Just uploaded the new Sources/Memberlist.pm to the SVN.

I'm looking into the conversion issue for that one post. The complicating factor is  ISO-8859-1/ansi isn't rendered as true ISO-8859-1 by browsers. They call it ISO-8859-1 or ansi but it's actually win-1252 which is just enough different to make things horribly complicated. And Perl's encode/decode doesn't handle win-1252 at all well when told to use that encoding instead of ISO-8859-1.

Officially there should be only a few differences between win-1252 and ISO-8859-1 but the official list of differences doesn't reflect reality as the rest of us know it.

My current list of things that don't convert right:

sub ansi {
     my ($line) = @_;
     $line =~ s/\x20AC/€/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x82/‚/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x83/ƒ/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x84/„/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x85/…/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x86/†/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x87/‡/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x88/ˆ/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x89/‰/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x8a/Š/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x8b/‹/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x8c/Œ/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x8e/Ž/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x91/‘/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x92/’/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x93/“/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x94/”/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x95/•/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x96/–/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x97/—/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x98/˜/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x99/™/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x9a/š/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x9b/›/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x9c/œ/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x9e/ž/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\x9f/Ÿ/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\xA0/ /gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\xe9/é/gxsm;
     $line =~ s/\xa9/©/gxsm;
     return $line;
 } 

The above list was gleaned from one of my other boards where I know for a fact that people directly copy and paste from Word for Windows.

I'm betting there's at least one more for the list in that post.

When MemberList starts throwing weird errors - rebuild the memberlist (That's working.)

So I have now a very stupid question:
Can not you do it the way it was before? That one can decide with the settings whether ISO or UTF? Just as it was before? This has proven itself well.

pyragony54 wrote on Aug 25^th, 2017 at 6:25pm:

I rebuilt the memberlist and now it's not throwing errors for me. (But don't try rebuilding notices - that's still doing bad things.)

The problem of Rebuild Notices is driving me buggy - I've just taken a backup of BoardMod so I can use that data to do more testing. (Another big forum, lots of members and probably lots of notices.)

On the online Strict 2.7 Build - not enough members to test and that one only has a couple of boards with board notices and those don't process at all.