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Is it just me, or are they broken? I see a replacement character instead of two of the characters - one right to the infinity, the other right to capital pi. It wasn't this way before.
Borek said:Is it just me, or are they broken? I see a replacement character instead of two of the characters - one right to the infinity, the other right to capital pi. It wasn't this way before.
Shyan said:I don't have them!
Greg Bernhardt said:does anyone remember what the broken symbols were before?
OmCheeto said:But I'm going to guess +/- and =
Greg Bernhardt said:hmmm prolly not because those are easily accessible on the keyboard
Borek said:Greg: why don't you switch back to ISO for a second
tiny-tim said:i've had the same problem recently typing the degree symbol (alt-shift-8 on a mac)
btw, could i once again make a plea for a decent φ (instead of ∅)?
EDIT: these errors are retrospective, see eg https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=228073 from 2008)
OmCheeto said:And while we are moaning, can we get new alpha and lower case sigma characters?
OmCheeto said:…, can we get new alpha and lower case sigma characters? I can barely tell them apart, σ α, unless I make them HUGE.
σ α
Borek said:That's not a problem with the forum, but with the default font your (and mine) browser uses.
Whatever it is.
tiny-tim said:btw, could i once again make a plea for a decent φ (instead of ∅)?
Greg Bernhardt said:I switched back to ISO-8859-1
Nugatory said:Switched back from what? UTF-8?
AlephZero said:FWIW the complete train-wreck that I see now (zero correct symbols, and some slots displayed as blank) looks like the "raw data" is in UTF-8 format, but my browser is displaying it as 8-bit ASCII.
This strategy might fix iit:
image telling me to call the Eagle.
Spacemoss said:I was going to start a thread, but then I saw this one, and think it's related. While looking at posts today all my θ inside tex [tex]θ[/tex] (theta, if its not showing right) in old posts are showing as some sort of i-hat.
tiny-tim said:ah, i see the new forum φ !
(and the restored ± and ∀)
thanks, Greg!
Borek said:Part of the mess is because some people used UTF-8 coded Greek letters in LaTeX formulas. If you want theta in LaTeX you should enter it as \theta, not as θ.
Whenever you see several funny characters instead of one, it is UTF-8 being displayed as ISO-whatever. UTF-8 characters can span over several bytes, with the highest bit set to show next byte contains next part of the character code. When treated as ISO it ends in browser displaying things like "∀" or "ς ‚" Tim mentioned.
Fredrik said:Someone referred to these as "alpha" and "sigma": σ α To me the "alpha" is an uppercase I with a ¨ (two dots) on top, followed by a weird f, and the "sigma" is an uppercase I with a ^ on top, followed by a ##\pm##.
It's supposed to be like that in many of the forums here, in particular this one (forum feedback & announcements). Can you try it in a forum that's more math-oriented, like linear algebra or relativity?SteamKing said:There's a new problem with the Advanced Reply Box which has cropped up in the last couple of days.
The Big Sigma which used to appear at the Right Hand Side of the Menu Bar has disappeared and Quick Symbols apparently cannot be accessed anymore, at least I can't access them. This feature worked for me a couple of days ago, and now, Poof!
I'm using Win 7 Home Premium with Firefox V28.0 as my browser.
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