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I just edited the old title.... using the double quotes on my key board.

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This is more-than-likely not about 7 / 8 bit ASCII, it is more-than-likely about UTF-8 and UTF-16.


See also: ...

Here ya go.....

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This is an encoding issue with an old post in the PHP vB3 app.

The encoding of the title DB field from years ago is not specified because the designers of vB 15+ years...

No. It's not that simple. It it was that simple, there would be no issue now. (The migration script already does encoding mapping from day 1. The DB is already UNICODE... the Ruby script...

This spam page (on new site) was full of those "odd diamond things"...

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https://community.unix.com/t/infraction-for-solosx-spammed-advertisements/271573

... but I got rid of them on old...

Here some clues about this:

mysql - Trouble with UTF-8 characters; what I see is not what I stored - Stack Overflow...

Update:

I set the link back to community as target="_blank" so it will open in a new tab and not replace the vB post, so it is easy to compare them.

Dear All,

To help with migration data integrity checks, today I spend the day working on this and created a migration tool which I hope is useful.

Basically, I mapped all the new discourse...

First of all, I would like to congratulate the developers of the great Node-Red software and for making programming available to the masses via the visual programming paradigm. I have introduced...

Update on Migration:

There is an old Chinese saying which goes something like this:

"You cannot see the entire mountain standing in the valley".

So, we asked our mod team to do some testing...

Normally, all attachments uploaded to the forums should be in format:

integer_id

This is how attachment inserted correctly into the forum posts will look when you edit the post.

Here is an...

Those numbers are weeks of the year, not months.

Update:


I have successfully moved all servers over to the "two container (data, web) with nginx reverse proxy to unix socket" configuration.
The problem was missing information in the support...

Update:


Staging server is running the "two container, nginx reverse proxy to unix socket" configuration.

Future production server is running the "two container without nginx reverse proxy"...

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Have made some core changes and am currently running both our staging server and our production server in "two container" mode; where the database and the web app are in two separate...

Update:

Long baking (staging server, discourse1) done after close to 15 hours:

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It is much improved, but @Scrutiziner, with his eagle eye for details, has plans for more refinements to...

Update:

This migration is moving along. @Scrutinizer has been a great help with debugging the bbcode migration, writing Ruby methods to preprocess various bbcode situations which arise in the...

Another update:

We continue to make progress in the complex mess of migration the bbcode from the old forum to the new ones:


@Scrutinzer wrote some nice code which strips all bbcode from our...

Normally,

It is a good idea to start from the top, but the method is up to you:

Comment out all the lines except for the top line, flush iptables, reapply and test.

If it works,...

Just some notes on some typical tasks for Discourse and how long they take:

Restore Postgres DB (Linux Ubuntu, 8 Core 32 GB RAM)


# time ./restoreneo // simple script that does a command...

It has been a few days since my last status update, so here is a new, quick one:

@Scrutiziner and @Neo continue to work on the migration and are getting closer. The migration script provided...

For those who have never seen the inside of a Discourse app, here are the canned raking tasks:


# rake --tasks
rake about # List...

According to a quick check 35 tables (posts with tables) has been stripped or skipped from the migration:


MariaDB [vb3]> select count(postid) from post where pagetext like '%[table="head"]%';...

There is bug in the new member registration process.

This bug appeared after we paused registration and moved to the new forums in our initial test mode.

When a new user registers now (here),...

Also, I am finding, by trial and error, that even before preprocessing with the Ruby migration scripts, there are some transformations which are easily done on the copy of the vB3 MySQL DB dump; for...