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 Jan 11 2007, 06:50 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 858 Joined: 25-August 03 From: Braunschweig, North German League, Allied German States Member No.: 5,537  |
The replacement of certain special characters with a "? + diamond" sign has already been mentioned by others.
As I have a special character (the Yen-sign) in my user name I'm currently unable to log in to Dumpshock from any browser/computer other than the one I'm using now (it still has a working "logged in" cookie) as the systems everytime responds with a "There is no user 'M?$T1C'" when I actually entered "MÂ¥$T1C"... I'd be very happy if this could be fixed. |
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Jan 11 2007, 08:56 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Mystic, try deleting all DSF cookies and reloading the browser. Some server software changes mean that older cookies are doing weird things. For more info see these:
Specific mention of the diamond question mark: http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=16141 Other wonky stuff: http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=16145 Let us know if nothing works. |
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Jan 11 2007, 11:00 PM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
eidolon, it isn't that he can't log in due to cookie failure. It's that one of the characters in his name got, to put it simply, corrupted. So now he can't hit that key to log in.
He may need a total name change to get it working right again. |
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Jan 11 2007, 11:09 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Right, sorry. Missed part of his post. Hopefully Adam will see this shortly.
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Jan 12 2007, 05:19 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 858 Joined: 25-August 03 From: Braunschweig, North German League, Allied German States Member No.: 5,537 |
You got it. I actually tried eidolon's method with FireFox 2.0.0.1 on Windows XP but the only result was that Dumpshock denied my log-in as no user called "MÂ¥$T1C" (with correct spelling!) is known - hardly surprising as I'm now "M?$T1C" to the system... I'm now using SwiftFox 2.0.0.1 on Linux that still has a working cookie.
That might indeed be the only solution... |
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Jan 12 2007, 05:27 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
Or you need to figure out how to type the "?-square" character to log in. Could you possibly just copy-paste that strange character in order to log in?
Is that a stupid idea? |
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Jan 12 2007, 07:39 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Retired Admins Posts: 3,929 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .ca Member No.: 51 |
Myst1c -- I've temporarily changed your username until we can resolve this whole character-encoding issue.
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Jan 12 2007, 10:53 PM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
It was a corrupted character -- one not recognized by any character system on any PC. Copy/pasting it would simply return a blank character (or, at least, something akin to it). Unfortunate, but that's the risk when using non-"uniform" characters in login names. Sometimes upgrades make them break. |
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