MYST1C
Jan 11 2007, 06:50 PM
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.
eidolon
Jan 11 2007, 08:56 PM
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=16141Other wonky stuff:
http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=16145Let us know if nothing works.
Tanka
Jan 11 2007, 11:00 PM
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.
eidolon
Jan 11 2007, 11:09 PM
Right, sorry. Missed part of his post. Hopefully Adam will see this shortly.
MYST1C
Jan 12 2007, 05:19 PM
| QUOTE (Tanka) |
| 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. |
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.
| QUOTE |
| He may need a total name change to get it working right again. |
That might indeed be the only solution...
Moon-Hawk
Jan 12 2007, 05:27 PM
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?
Adam
Jan 12 2007, 07:39 PM
Myst1c -- I've temporarily changed your username until we can resolve this whole character-encoding issue.
Tanka
Jan 12 2007, 10:53 PM
| QUOTE (Moon-Hawk) |
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? |
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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