Two Bugs

[Mike Olds]

Hello:

A couple of bugs?:

When you enter the site from some other place than CommunityForum Index, such as from a search page or from a 'reply to' where you have not already logged in, the login does not remember your password. Not a TP bug? Passwords remembered by the browser?

When replacing a unicode character with another unicode character using the EditUnicodeChar sometimes (too frequently for convenience) the result is not the intended character, but another character altogether. I presume this is a result of the two characters formng this third character ... and if you try to do it a second time without deleting the original, it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't, when it doesn't it results in still another character.

Nevertheless, the ability to input Unicode is a dream come true for me at least.

[ben_josephs]

Can you give some examples of the EditUnicodeChar issue?

[Mike Olds]

Start with �
Select it
enter ḷ
get �

Å‹
�
ä…‹

This is happening with almost all characters. The YouGet is not always the same even for the same combination.

This is also SOMETIMES happening if you enter a unicode character before or after (without selecting).

Let me add to bug #1 that however much I click the remember me next time button onthe login, it doesn't remember me. sad.

[ben_josephs]

If a single character is selected when you run the EditUnicodeChar command, the edit control initially contains the Unicode value (in hex without leading zeroes) of the selected character. You must select or delete that value before you enter a new value.

If you select � (hex 0101) and run EditUnicodeChar, the edit control initially contains 101. If, without selecting or deleting that value, you then enter the code for ḷ (1E37) the entered characters appear to the left of the characters already there. But the edit control is restricted to 5 digits (the maximum length of a Unicode value in hex) and only the first two of the entered characters appear, leaving 1E101 in the control. If, without checking what is in the control, you accept that value, TextPad discards the first digit, as it can only handle 16-bit Unicode characters, leaving E101, which is the code of the character it enters, which appears as an open box.

The same thing is happening in your ŋ (014B), � (014D), 䅋 (414B) sequence.

One might say that the behaviour of the EditUnicodeChar edit control is not ideally friendly.

[Mike Olds]

haha Thanks Ben.

[AmigoJack]

the login does not remember your password. Not a TP bug? Passwords remembered by the browser?

Yes. Yes.

Technically your password isn't remembered, but instead a login key is stored in your cookies to re-recognize you and then log in automatically - it's a compromise of security versus comfort. And since cookies are bound to browsers: yes, it's browser dependant - ticking "remember me" at home won't help you to automatically log in at work, too.

So it's also no phpBB bug either (this board's software).