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   @Julien. Just out of interest, I wonder if you might point your script at the database again and find out how many biographies and albums contain the dreaded � where there should be a letter with a diacritic above it?
This has been an ongoing problem with the admin panel for about 20 months now, so in theory there shouldn't be any before March 2023, but I was wondering how many instances of this have crept though unnoticed.

I guess whether we bother to fix them will depend on how many there actually are, but it would be interesting to know this.

There is of course the other problem where curly apostrophes and quotation marks get replaced by question marks, but I expect there will be quite a lot more of those lurking about.

Edit: I spoke too soon about there not being any of these � before March 2023 in theory.

The PA Reviews Guidelines page had a couple back in February 2012, which are now showing as curly quotation marks, and these two biographies must have been added when the site was very young:

https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=926
https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=916

Though of course somebody might have opened those two pages in the admin panel at some point since and spoilt them.

This curse has even infected the forums in the dim and distant past. This post was from February 2008 (the text in the original list contained Discogs style long dashes where the � are).

Edited by yam yam - 6 hours 34 minutes ago at 08:49

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yam yam Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Crossover Team Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 6355	Post Options Post Reply Quote yam yam Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13 hours 22 minutes ago at 02:01
	@Julien. Just out of interest, I wonder if you might point your script at the database again and find out how many biographies and albums contain the dreaded � where there should be a letter with a diacritic above it? This has been an ongoing problem with the admin panel for about 20 months now, so in theory there shouldn't be any before March 2023, but I was wondering how many instances of this have crept though unnoticed. I guess whether we bother to fix them will depend on how many there actually are, but it would be interesting to know this. There is of course the other problem where curly apostrophes and quotation marks get replaced by question marks, but I expect there will be quite a lot more of those lurking about. Edit: I spoke too soon about there not being any of these � before March 2023 in theory. The PA Reviews Guidelines page had a couple back in February 2012, which are now showing as curly quotation marks, and these two biographies must have been added when the site was very young: https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=926 https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=916 Though of course somebody might have opened those two pages in the admin panel at some point since and spoilt them. This curse has even infected the forums in the dim and distant past. This post was from February 2008 (the text in the original list contained Discogs style long dashes where the � are). Edited by yam yam - 6 hours 34 minutes ago at 08:49

Gordy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Folk/Eclectic/PSIKE/Metal/Post/Math Team Joined: January 25 2007 Location: US Status: Offline Points: 4024	Post Options Post Reply Quote Gordy Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 4 hours 30 minutes ago at 10:53
	There's a duplicate live entry on the Bardo Pond page: https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=62559 https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=14617 The first entry is correct and more detailed, and therefore the second should be deleted. Both were rated by the same user, so I don't feel as bad in getting rid of the redundancy.

yam yam Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Crossover Team Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 6355	Post Options Post Reply Quote yam yam Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 3 hours 3 minutes ago at 12:20
	^ I think the cover image needs updating on this album too. According to Discogs, the cover image we currently have is the one for the special "limited to 125 copies" edition in a "hash pipe" sleeve. The standard version was limited to 600 copies and came in an orange sleeve. Due to a printing error, the first pressing of the discs featured the wrong shade of orange on the actual CD, so the disc was repressed and released with the right colour. Some of the miscoloured discs were repackaged in this different "hash pipe" sleeve and sold in a limited edition of 125 copies. The notation (PMS721) on the outer sleeve of this version refers to the colour of the print on the CD. RYM's page for this album also has the orange sleeve as its cover image.