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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:


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 - 7 hours 52 minutes ago at 08:49
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There's a duplicate live entry on the Bardo Pond page:



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.
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^ 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.
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^ Thanks. Cover updated. #14617 will be deleted soon.
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Originally posted by yam yam yam yam wrote:

@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.

David, this is a nice idea. We could do that soon. But not now, let me explain why.

My script is very powerful, but it depends on my local database, which is a copy of the PA database. My local database isn't updated very often, and takes a long time to do so (several days, at least).

For example, I just searched for "�" in my database, and found 5 results. My guess is that there is more, but I must update my database before to be sure. So I will add this "task" on my to-do list, and come back to you when I have accurate results.

For now, I have:

... and the culprits are NotAProghead, Mirakaze and Gordy ... hahaha! Embarrassed

About biographies, it's the same logic. So stay tuned... maybe in the next months?
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^I fixed the two Oren entries.
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