Difference between revisions of "ISFDB talk:Invalid characters in Publication titles"
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:::I think we want to replace them in pubs as well as in titles, but it also raises another issue. Al has some special logic behind the scenes that converts different kinds of apostrophes to the same character, but it was a little shaky in the past. If we fix all currently existing offenders and new ones appear in the next couple of months, then we may still have a software issue. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 22:06, 26 April 2008 (UTC) | :::I think we want to replace them in pubs as well as in titles, but it also raises another issue. Al has some special logic behind the scenes that converts different kinds of apostrophes to the same character, but it was a little shaky in the past. If we fix all currently existing offenders and new ones appear in the next couple of months, then we may still have a software issue. [[User:Ahasuerus|Ahasuerus]] 22:06, 26 April 2008 (UTC) | ||
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| + | :::: '''A search for "’" found 363 matches (limit 100)''' (the simple title search on our home page). That's the ’ entered directly, not as HTML (the code 146 as above, I believe). So you won't find ''Acorna's Rebels'' etc. --[[User:Roglo|Roglo]] 16:35, 28 April 2008 (UTC) | ||
Revision as of 12:35, 28 April 2008
It looks like nearly all of those are on the list because they use the angled single quote, character code 146 (’), versus apostrophe which is character code 39 ('). The last two are using a bullet, character code 149 (•), in the title. I've fixed all of the titles to use the standard single quote and replaced the bullets with hyphens (-). Both the quote and bullet usually happen when someone copy/pastes a title from Amazon. Marc Kupper (talk) 01:34, 20 Jan 2008 (CST)
- Excellent, many thanks! :) Ahasuerus 01:49, 20 Jan 2008 (CST)
- While editing Reaper's Gale publication I discovered we have quite a few ’ (=’) characters (in the titles, too: the simple search returned 47 matches). Do we replace them in the title records only or in pubs as well? --Roglo 14:01, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- I think we want to replace them in pubs as well as in titles, but it also raises another issue. Al has some special logic behind the scenes that converts different kinds of apostrophes to the same character, but it was a little shaky in the past. If we fix all currently existing offenders and new ones appear in the next couple of months, then we may still have a software issue. Ahasuerus 22:06, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
- A search for "’" found 363 matches (limit 100) (the simple title search on our home page). That's the ’ entered directly, not as HTML (the code 146 as above, I believe). So you won't find Acorna's Rebels etc. --Roglo 16:35, 28 April 2008 (UTC)