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We are fully supportive of Neil Young and are now...

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I'm admitted bias because I am a big Neil Young fan, especially his early years. I grew up playing and singing his songs with friends.

Today, I sent this message to Spotify in support of Neil...

We have updating our terms of service regarding altering legacy content on this site, current operating as a "read-only" reference and historical site.

This TOS is available here:

Terms of...

Dear All,

Since this site is now primarily a reference site, I have enabled (re-enabled) dates and times in all posts for guest users.

The new community is making progress, slowly but surely:

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Would be great to see more new users.

The new site is not performing as well as I expected; but it is not because the software...

Update:

This server switch was completed, tested for a few hours, and then reverted back because serving the PHP pages in a dockerized LAMP container significantly slows down the site.

FYI.

On Saturday, 27 June, 2020 I plan to move the legacy (reference) site ```www.unix.com``` to a different server.

The new location is currently running fine and tested.

The new app...

We are experimenting with embedding the "first reply" of each thread from migrated legacy topics into each topic / thread here (when available):

See this community topic for details:

Embedding...

Hi Robin,

This site is currently open for reference only (read only).

For posting, blogging, projects and Q&A please post over at Community:

Unix Linux Community - Technical support for all...

The users have chosen!

The old forums will remain open as a reference site and all new posts will be over at the new Community.

Should We Open This Forum?

Please vote and comment (https://community.unix.com/t/member-poll-should-we-reopen-the-old-forums/378531) over at the new community forums!
...

Any questions?

Please post your questions at Unix Linux Community - Technical support for all Unix-like users. (https://community.unix.com/)

Thanks!

To learn how to user discourse more effectively, head on over to the new site and send one of these messages to Discobot:

@discobot start new user

@discobot start advanced user

Here are some tips for logging in to our new Community (https://community.unix.com/):


If you are a forum member with a valid email address in your profile and you have not logged in to...

Do not post classroom or homework problems in the main forums. Homework and coursework questions can only be posted in this forum (https://www.unix.com/homework-coursework-questions/) under special...

There now exists an official workaround for this as of Docker for Mac >= 2.2.0.0.

REF: File system sharing (osxfs) | Docker Documentation...

Hi Dennis,

I think we are done with this odd encoding issue for now.

We need to stick with the plan of comparing old to new, with links for each; but we are moving off that target so let's call...

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.


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If so, then what is wrong with the second quote mark (Unicode value) in the old site???

Those quote marks are in an encoding not processed by the PHP / HTML as proper "UTF-8" in this legacy...

No. The UNIX standard (not operational software, only standards) is maintained by the Open Group.

The Open Group (https://www.opengroup.org/)

Old site title is broken.... due to encoding issue:

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New site, title is looking good:

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If we edit the title on the old site and replace the mojibake with regular double quotes,...

OBTW, if I add this to the showthread PHP script:

$thread['title'] = utf8_encode($thread['title']);

(which I just did for fun to the old forum).

The issue is the same.

I think it is an...

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...

Let me check the original DB and post back..

Hold on.