Overview
This suggestion is for Star Army's staff (mainly Wes) to attempt to repair Star Army forum posts from Star Army's PHPBB2 forum, which were "damaged" in conversion to PHPBB3 as part of the great forum merge when we started to use Xenforo 1.
Background
During the software change, I not only converted the existing PHPBB3 forum but also I was able to successfully get PHPBB2 working and load the backups from 2004 to 05 or 07 (before the forum hack of 2007 and the start of the new forum which eventually became PHPBB3), then upgraded that forum to PHPBB3 and imported it into Xenforo 1, creating the unified forum we are using now. During the conversion process from PHPBB2 to PHPBB3, certain characters were not properly converted, which seem to be curly quotes and curly apostrophes. In some cases, they just appear as gibberish but in other cases the post is cut off below the point of the error, resulting in missing RP content. As you know, I try to preserve anyone's RP to the best reasonable extent so I would like to restore the content if possible. This is due to conversion from CP-1252 to Unicode UTF-8.
Example of a damaged post:
As you can see the errors look like:
Implementing the Suggestion
By searching for certain characters on Star Army pages on Google, I've been able to identify some of the affected posts. To implement the suggestion, we need to
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This suggestion is for Star Army's staff (mainly Wes) to attempt to repair Star Army forum posts from Star Army's PHPBB2 forum, which were "damaged" in conversion to PHPBB3 as part of the great forum merge when we started to use Xenforo 1.
Background
During the software change, I not only converted the existing PHPBB3 forum but also I was able to successfully get PHPBB2 working and load the backups from 2004 to 05 or 07 (before the forum hack of 2007 and the start of the new forum which eventually became PHPBB3), then upgraded that forum to PHPBB3 and imported it into Xenforo 1, creating the unified forum we are using now. During the conversion process from PHPBB2 to PHPBB3, certain characters were not properly converted, which seem to be curly quotes and curly apostrophes. In some cases, they just appear as gibberish but in other cases the post is cut off below the point of the error, resulting in missing RP content. As you know, I try to preserve anyone's RP to the best reasonable extent so I would like to restore the content if possible. This is due to conversion from CP-1252 to Unicode UTF-8.
Example of a damaged post:
As you can see the errors look like:
" = Quote (curly)FIXED' = Single quote (curly)FIXED... = an ellipsis, I thinkFIXED— = em-dashFIXED- Unquotes (curly) display as †and cut off the post in question.
ô = ô as in Santô HeiFIXED
Implementing the Suggestion
By searching for certain characters on Star Army pages on Google, I've been able to identify some of the affected posts. To implement the suggestion, we need to
- create a list of affected posts, edit the ones that just need editing
- I can batch edit the single quote errors at the database level probably
- the ones that are cut off I will need to search in an old copy of Star Army's database.
- RP: 5th XF - [5th Expeditionary] Mission 00X-01: Master and Servant
- RP: 5th XF - [Finished]003-01 Rescue on Taiie IV (17th Armor Wing)
- RP: Pisces - Episode 01 - 'Under A Blind God'
- RP: NSS Kestrel - EPISODE 1, PART 1: Flight of the Falcon
- Rejected Submission - Lorath Tech: Powered Gloves
- NSS Cedar / NSS Canary
- Starship Wapon: Grey Goo
- [Carthage] Perry Class Heavy Expeditionary Cruiser
- RP: Ayenee - [Ayenee] Acquiring a Starship
- Lor System Information.
- RP: YSS Valiant - Mission 1
- RP: YSS Celia - [Anisa Star Fortress] Shattered Glass (3rd post, others need fixing)
- Gigatonne vs. Yottawatts
- Gluon Mesh / Yarvex discussion thread.
- RP: YSS Destiny - The 'Scrapers
- Approved Character - Aki'shma Tinker Occhesta
- RP: YSS Celia - [YSS Celia, Ohara] Scenes Aboard a Ship
- SACN - [COMM] Attention Taisho Yui
- RP: YSS Celia - [YSS Celia] Poolside Conversation
- Waffle Iron
- Emrys Industries Fletchete Gauss Rifle
- RP: 5th XF - [Finished] First Officer's Tour and Welcome
- Rejected Character - Tom Alect
- Mantus Infantry Power Armour
- Emrys Industries Wet Wear
- Velcior Shuttle
- OOC - [OOC] Goban Discussion (I think it's complete?)
- Anti-matter Flechette Launcher
- Anthedon Power Armour
- Sperion Mini-Grenade
- Full conversion cyborg idea.
- Fight for Yamatai!
- Elysian Gender and Sexuality
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