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by Gunness
Mon Jun 08, 2026 12:07 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
Replies: 29
Views: 1496

Re: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken

We have the same issue with publishers. Like, two Dragonsoft, two Dream Software, two Excalibur Software etc. I've added a [1] and [2] to the names in question.
by Gunness
Sun Jun 07, 2026 7:16 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
Replies: 29
Views: 1496

Re: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken


Alright, question marks in notes, synopsis and author names should be taken care of - all I found has been restored. If you find more broken things, I encourage you to fix by hand. If, however, you indeed find large amounts of broken entries, do alert me here. Thank you for all the support and the ...
by Gunness
Sat Jun 06, 2026 4:18 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
Replies: 29
Views: 1496

Re: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken

There's a lot to keep track of on the linked page, but I haven't spotted anything egregious, either.

So please pull the trigger! And thanks a lot for preparing the fix :)
by Gunness
Mon Jun 01, 2026 5:16 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
Replies: 29
Views: 1496

Re: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken

No, it would be pretty outdated, I'm afraid.

To avoid several passes, maybe we should ensure that the list of characters to be replaced is as complete as possible. I can take another look tomorrow, but don't have the time tonight.

Equally important, what can be done to avoid this in the future ...
by Gunness
Mon Jun 01, 2026 1:51 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
Replies: 29
Views: 1496

Re: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken

Also, are other fields than the title also affected?


Yes, the user comments - see: https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C330/Lords+of+Karma.html:
"I’m a big fan of Avalon Hill Microcomputer Games and have nearly all of these titles in my game collection. Lords of Karma can’t be 1978 given ...
by Gunness
Mon Jun 01, 2026 6:44 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
Replies: 29
Views: 1496

Re: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken


Can you help assembling a list of characters which will need replacing - i.e. how they look now and what they are supposed to be? I have so far:

'ü' => 'ü',
'ä' => 'ä',
'ö' => 'ö',
'Ü' => 'Ü',
'é' => 'é',
'á' => 'á',
'ê' => 'ê'


Also, are other fields than the title also affected ...
by Gunness
Sat May 30, 2026 11:08 am
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
Replies: 29
Views: 1496

Re: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken

Much appreciated!
by Gunness
Fri May 29, 2026 11:29 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken
Replies: 29
Views: 1496

Re: Umlauts and other diacritics are broken

I presume that it's a display error, as I don't know why these specific characters should have been corrupted.
As far as I can tell, all pages are displayed with UTF-8, which *is* able to display special characters such as these. I don't have any ideas straight away but I'll investigate.
by Gunness
Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:26 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Perry Mason: The Case of the Mandarin Murder
Replies: 17
Views: 175041

Re: Perry Mason: The Case of the Mandarin Murder

I hadn't noticed this thread. I have a very soft spot for the Telarium series of games*, but I probably should revisit Perry Mason. I played it many moons ago and while deeply fascinated with this one, I found all the FROWNing etc. pretty confusing. Running a murder case is a far cry from the usual ...
by Gunness
Thu Jan 02, 2025 5:32 pm
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Happy new year!
Replies: 1
Views: 78206

Re: Happy new year!

Thanks - same to you, good sir!
by Gunness
Tue Dec 24, 2024 9:58 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: Merry Christmas 2024
Replies: 4
Views: 204828

Merry Christmas 2024

It's already on the front page - but as you know you can't hold a good thing down, so here's an encore: Merry Christmas everybody! Thanks to readers, contributors and - not the least - our editorial team.
If you celebrate and have time off during the holidays, I hope that you manage to sneak in a ...
by Gunness
Tue Dec 10, 2024 10:57 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Broken Review Links
Replies: 3
Views: 90592

Re: Broken Review Links

No problem :thumb:
by Gunness
Tue Dec 10, 2024 7:56 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: Broken Review Links
Replies: 3
Views: 90592

Re: Broken Review Links

Moved to the feedback forum.

@Mr. Creosote - might you have any idea why this is happening? The reviews simply open up to a blank page.
by Gunness
Wed Nov 20, 2024 4:44 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Title and in game music in text adventures
Replies: 7
Views: 100215

Re: Title and in game music in text adventures

Some C64 mentions (cause I love ingame music for my adventure games :D )
The disc version of the Hobbit has terrific music throughout

Since Heroes of Karn has been mentioned, let's not forget its sequel Empire of Karn, which improves on its predecessor in every way, including musically (same ...