disregard

zoogies said:
sd said:
Po Belini said:
Husker Richard said:
Sounds pretty cliche and unoriginal anyway....
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Care to give him some original ideas then...
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i proposed to my wife via huskerboard.
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Interesting.

Po Belini said:
Husker Richard said:
Sounds pretty cliche and unoriginal anyway....
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Care to give him some original ideas then...
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i proposed to my wife via huskerboard.
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I just noticed that sd'sker's username, when quoted, is always truncated to sd. It's because that dang apostrophe is signalling the end of the quote name='' attribute, and changing it to name=" " doesn't help either.

Just interesting. Ha. Probably not worth trying to fix but I suppose you could process the ' character into the ascii character code ' (e.g ')

 
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That's odd. It doesn't happen with contractions. And you have to wonder why the folks coding the board would allow the truncation but not have a setting or function that prohibits "special" characters in display names.

I'm sure we can fix it, but man, I'd hate to go through the files to find the section that has the quote function for usernames...

 
What do you mean by doesn't happen with contractions? I think it happens with any instance of the "'" character.

I think it's more trouble than it's worth. And besides, once you get a quote pyramid going I don't think there's any way it will be able to see the ' in the username part of the nested quote and change that to & #39;...oh well.

 
What I mean is that sd'husker has a single ' in his display name. Just like it's, they're, we're, etc. There must be two functions at work - one for the display name when quoted, and one for messages or posts. The former truncaites after the ' symbol in display names; the latter doesn't for text in a message. Just interesting that the coders would write the display name function so that it does that, yet not also do a check string to be sure that the character that triggers that behavior (the ' symbol) isn't permitted in display names. For example, if I go to the main control panel for the board and look for sd'husker, the name appears correctly. It's only in the quote function that it seems to happen that I can see.

 
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Actually, I think it's truncated because of how the QUOTE functionality works. It goes like {quote name='username'}, except with square brackets, so that when the username is sd'sker, it looks like {quote name='sd'sker'}, so the browser interprets it as just 'sd' and the 'sker', though it's still there, becomes meaningless. If you quote my first post for example, you can see that the "sker" part isn't actually truncated, it just has no effect because the ' acts as the closing quote for the NAME attribute.

 
Ah, I see what you mean now. Sorry. There's a string that's not being evaluated by as a string. Kind of interesting that the Board doesn't throw an error message, though, when you think about it. It has to be viewing it as some kind of code rather than text or a string, which usually will trigger an error routine.

 
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