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Top Forums Programming Issue with Keyboard or Char Encoding During Migration Post 303046235 by hicksd8 on Tuesday 28th of April 2020 07:35:53 AM
Old 04-28-2020
Hi All,

As Neo says I have been spending a bit of time on this migration integrity issue.

The irritating "Thingy" (white diamond with question mark in the middle) is officially the Unicode symbol called "Replacement character". The character set inserts this as a placeholder for a character that it doesn't understand. IMHO, the issue here is simply that the migration script (or whatever process) SHOULD understand all the characters on our old site. Yes, we already have "Replacement characters" on the old site switch probably emanated from a long ago upgrade from ascii to Unicode, or from Unicode version x to Unicode version y. As Neo says, replacement character symbols in our old site must be ignored because there's nothing we can do about them now apart from manually edit them out as time goes on.

However, I believe that the currently used (Discourse provided??) process is stuffed because it doesn't understand some of the perfectly correct text on our old site. It even screws up a thread title on the old site containing the replacement character symbol - look at this......

Post migration
How to grep i?1/2 symbol? - Shell Programming and Scripting - UNIX.COM Community

Pre migration
How to grep � symbol?

So the process doesn't even understand it's own Unicode character set!!!!

So FWIW, I've come to the conclusion that trying to modify our old dB is futile as the process will probably find something else to screw up.

Indeed, if you follow the first link I posted on this thread further back, others are having the same issue.

That's my update thus far. I'll report back again as my investigation continues.

EDIT: Replacement character symbol is U+FFFD
 

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GHI(1)							      General Commands Manual							    GHI(1)

NAME
ghi - command-line interface to the GitHub Issues API SYNOPSIS
ghi command [arguments] [options] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the ghi command. ghi is a command-line interface to the GitHub Issues API. It can be used to access all of GitHub's documented Issues API (v2) functionality from the command line: open, close and manipulate issues. If no command is given, the default action is list. If a number is given instead, the default action is show. COMMANDS
list [ -s open|closed|all ] Show open, closed or all issues (choose with -s, see below). Default is open. show number Show issue number. This command can be invoked also as ghi <number>. open [ number ], o [ number ] Create a new issue, and launch $EDITOR. If number is given, reopens that issue. open -m message, o -m message Create a new issue with message content (optionally, use for new lines; first line will be the issue title). close number, c number Closes issue number. edit number, e number Edit issue number with $EDITOR. label add|remove label number Add or remove label to/from issue number. You can use al or rl instead of, respectively, label add and label remove. search term, s term Search for term. comment number, m number Create a comment for issue number (with $EDITOR). OPTIONS
-h, --help Show summary of options. -v, --verbose Show issue details (only for show, list and search commands). Default is false. -V, --version Show program's version number and exit. -s STATE, --state=STATE Specify state (only for list and search (except "all") commands). Choices are: open (o), closed (c), all (a). Default is open. -r REPO, --repo=REPO, --repository=REPO Specify a repository. The format: "user/repo" or just "repo" (latter will get the user from the global git config). -w, --web, --webbrowser Show issue(s) GitHub page in web browser (only for list and show commands). Default is false. AUTHOR
github-cli was written by Sander Smits <jhmsmits@gmail.com>. This manual page was written by David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). April 13, 2010 GHI(1)
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