Install this user script to clean up the garbage characters when viewing a page and this user script to allow you to post arbitrary Unicode without it appearing as garbage.
The bug is that the FR server mangles posted Unicode characters outside the original 7-bit ASCII range. Such characters are uploaded in UTF-8, which encodes each such special character as two or more bytes in the hex 80-ff range. Instead of leaving such sequences unmodified, as it used to do, the server replaces each byte of each sequence with its corresponding HTML entity (as opposed to the entity for the sequence as a whole, which would be harmless but unnecessary). That results in a mess on the screen, but also allows the original content to be reconstructed. Which is what my user scripts do.
Thank you cynwoody!
From now on I am going directly to you. :)
How silly of me!
Wait...What?
(My only computer is an iphone 3)
Your posting is way over my head as to the explanation of the special characters appearing in postings, but thanks for the explanation and Merry Christmas to you, your family and your pets (they are family as well)....
I’ve been waiting for an update that includes Android.. was quite spoiled to your script, used it for years.. Haven’t been able to find greasemonkey yet :-(
I am often weary of trying things that are new to me on the net, but I gave this a try and it works it is also kind of fun to work with, it will take some time for my mind to get use as I am resistant to change, thanks for your effort in explanation.
LaMudBug it is really not as complicated as it appears in written form, just download according to Installation Instructs and start using I think you’ll be glad you did, the learning curve is really shallow, FR is chock full of experts you can trust, it is more than a Forum it is a daily learning process.
Kind of makes me feel a bit like a Tech Nerd... I like it.