Problem viewing recipe measurements on the swap

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georgiarose

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Maybe it is just my computer, but I have pulled up several older recipes in the swap and some of the ingredients measurements have been replaced by symbols. See example below:

3 medium SWEET POTATOES (1-1� lbs)

1� Tbsp BROWN SUGAR

� tsp SALT

I've tried pasting them into Notepad and into Word and playing with the fonts, but they don't change. Does anyone else have this issue or suggestions for fixing it? TIA!

 
 
these are all special characters

I'm a little unsure why this is happening for a specific set of older posts because those same characters are allowed for example:

Bon Appétit

â—™ 1 lb. fresh chorizo or Italian sausage, or fresh pork breakfast sausage

6½Tbs. (3/4 stick) butter, divided

 
Could it be related to the encoding?

When I right-click the page, it is selecting Unicode UTF-8. If I change it to another set, the missing characters change, but are still not readable.

 
yes all of these get corrected with Western ISO-latin 1 encoding

I'm just not sure why this happened on these particular pages

 
maybe a fix TEMPORARY!

the best explanation I have found is that these particular recipes were copied on an older Windows computer and pasted here when posted. The encoding was carried over rather than cleaned up and unified.

Somewhere in the ancient code running the Swap there is some little handler to correct this / accommodate it. On newer code it wouldn't be an issue. SO I found a way to downgrade the server specifically only for the Swap here. This is one of those band-aids that I've been doing for years now and it may cause problems in which case I'll need to revert it back. So keep your eyes peeled for new gremlins or other problems. But it seems to be addressed:

http://eat.at/swap/forum1/161239_This_one_looks_promising_too_Rec__Squash_and_Sweet_Potato_Gratin

http://eat.at/swap/forum/index.php?action=display&forumid=1&msgid=1442

 
never mind!

I see the "fix" is causing new problems already. But for a few brief moments, all was right with the world, at least in the Recipe Swap...

 
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