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I think it’s the third time this error message is featured in an Error’d. Maybe one day this bug will get fixed?
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I assume Ram√≥n is supposed to be Ramón.
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That looks familiar...
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Nords have a problem with localization
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I'm pretty sure it's Rameses Niblick the Third, Kerplunk, Kerplunk, Whoops Where's My Thribble.
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I almost lost my cred here and had to ask where the hell is that from.
Fortunately, database index got rebuilt and I remembered. I'm sure I'll have the series and episode nailed down within a minute or so.
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TRWTF is: In what country and what decade are these any kind of top names for boys? Woodrow? Jemahr? Jarith? (which sounds like a girl's name, if it's any name at all) Rohan? (The kingdom of men in Lord of the Rings - THAT's what people are naming boys after from those movies, and not, say, Aragorn??)
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That clearly isn't a math error, it's a numerical display error. 41 + 37 = 78 is correct.
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The "fiks dette" is especially hilarious in Norwegian, as "fiks dette" means "fix this" - a phrase that easily could be scribbled angrily over something that needs fixing. :)
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David Bowie would like to have a word with you.
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That is a man who knows his balls.
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Woodrow should make sense, no?
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https://thedailywtf.com/images/15/q1/e147/Pic-7.jpg I certainly want any bus I'm riding in to be uncompressed. Compressed bus, not so good: [image]
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You can get much better compression with the right tools:
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Just don't use an ancient version of IE to open fiksdette. works fine in IE 11. But i can imagine anything <= IE8 won't work since it is AngularJS.
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Looks like lossy compression, though...
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Except he doesn't. They had to have someone behind him stick their hand up in front of him and do the ball thing.
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Just call him 'Root'. All his friends do.
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That makes sense. The "Ramón" presentation looks like an OCR (optical character recognition) error that would result from such a name.
...and that's an interesting thought. What part of constructing their "Trustworthy Names" site would involve OCR? Did they take a computerized list of names, print it out, scan it in, and OCR to get ready for the website?
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I can save them some money there. Just scan the file straight from the screen
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scanned from magazine or book....
old reader's digest?
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No, no no. It's spelled "Ramón" but it's pronounced "Throat Warbler Mangrove".
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I was actually wondering if encoding error.
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That was my first thought, too. It makes more sense than why they would be inputting names using OCR. I haven't bothered trying to figure out what encodings would map between "√≥" and "ó".
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I didn't spend any effort either, but I've seen that particular combination before and more times and contexts than OCR would allow for.
Sooner we figure out one encoding and move everything to it, the better. (waits for someone to explain why this is retarded and I'm TRWTF for wanting harmonisation)
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So, about the time Lojban becomes the sole, universal language. I trust you'll forgive me if I don't hold my breath in the mean time.
Edit: Neat. Discourse says my reply is a
null [object Object].Admin
https://thedailywtf.com/images/15/q1/e147/Pic-4.png
Lots of WTFs on that site - my favorite is that all of the name links are actually submit buttons styled to look like anchor tags.
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We are getting there though, UTF-8 is pretty much de facto on the web these days.
Though that software with which I am associated, for legacy reasons, is dual encoding and a bunch of fault conditions get magically fixed if you switch to UTF-8... and people bitch at me when I recommend this because 'but I actually want ISO-8859-1'. And I'm like 'WTF dude'. This is a thing. It happened last week in fact.
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No, actually it's lossless - all of the bus is technically still there ;)
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Yeah, the biggest problems I have are copying-and-pasting between web and Windows (UTF-16 file names), and even that seems to work most of the time.
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I think you'd find that the window glass is lost.
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The browser is actually doing a lot of that for you. Which is cool.
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It's not explicitly gone, just all over the ground in tiny pieces.
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Well then, nothing is ever gone according to the laws of thermodynamics. Doesn't change the fact this
pr0neducational material I'm watching is grainy as shit.Admin
Is there any encoding with a multi-byte ó?
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Trust me: You'd have problems reconstituting the original bus. So: lossy.
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Yes, it's 2-byte in UTF-8.
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Oh right. C3b3. Shows how much I know.
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Not sure if whoosh.
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No whoosh. Part pedantry; part joke, thus the :P
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I really should flag that post for spellar though :stuck_out_tongue:
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Some (most!) of the old Mac-specific encodings will do that when given given UTF-8 and reinterpreting the bytes. For example, Mac OS Roman will do it…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_Roman
(Macs are now UTF-8. Have been for ages. Thank god and all his little angels.)
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TRWTF is using Opera >12. Seriously, why? It's Chromium with some features removed. You're only encouraging them by using it; the entire company deserves to die a horrible flaming death for killing off the best browser in the world.
Just get rid of it and hope that Otter ( http://otter-browser.org/ ) becomes usable.
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Definitely unusual. It's far more common to see ó rendered as ó, with UTF-8 interpreted as Latin-1 or Windows..
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I remember how you could always instantly tell when a webpage was made on a Mac, when every other punctuation mark and every accented letter would be garbage. Most pages never bothered to list their character set, and even those that did were ignored by the crappy browsers of the time.
Side note: What's with all the broken images today?
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This is not the droid you're looking for.
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FTFY. :(
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I bow to your knowledge of encodings, good sir. Mac-Roman is not a charset I am familiar with.
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Well I use it until Otter does get usable. At the very least I have my mouse gestures and speed dial that doesn't take a minute to load and then spams me with ads and "like us on teh Facebookz!" like certain speed dial extensions in other browsers do.
Shame my time is so limited lately. I know a thing or two about Qt and would like to contribute to Otter but alas, I don't have the time...