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Maybe it was a mixup?  Maybe you were supposed to get access to the PH and not the HoI. 

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Weissreich and Pengu, you didn't have Citizenship sub-masking, which is a common mistake when primary and secondary submaskings are being changed often. In Weissreich's case it was probably when his standard Citizenship was revoked, and in Pengu's case it was probably the brief period that he lost Citizenship. All Citizens/Paragons should have Citizen sub-masking, even if their primary mask that shows is something else.

Laurentus, I removed your justice sub-masking when you renounced your Citizenship, and didn't add it back when you came back. I don't know whether I missed it or just didn't think it was important since the case you were involved with was over, but I put it back.

Some Weekend Updates

-The ignore feature now properly does not show posts of people that you have ignored. To add someone to ignore, go to OLD User CP -> Modify Profile -> Buddies/Ignore List -> Edit Ignore List.

-The Notes feature now uses an editable div instead of a textbox, making it look like you're typing and editing your notes right on the page itself! Not a big update in itself, but it'll enable some cool stuff in the future.

Just thought I'd make a note that sometimes editing your signature through the New CP causes a complete loss of everything you've entered, even when you're not directly editing your signature and are just changing other values on that page. Not sure if it's been mentioned before

Just thought I'd make a note that sometimes editing your signature through the New CP causes a complete loss of everything you've entered, even when you're not directly editing your signature and are just changing other values on that page. Not sure if it's been mentioned before

Bold mine...I'm not sure I understand, cause it sounds like a contradiction.

Just thought I'd make a note that sometimes editing your signature through the New CP causes a complete loss of everything you've entered, even when you're not directly editing your signature and are just changing other values on that page. Not sure if it's been mentioned before

Bold mine...I'm not sure I understand, cause it sounds like a contradiction.

Let me rephrase Weissreich's statement:

Sometimes editing anything through the New CP causes a complete loss of your signature.

In my experience, it usually happens when you have a non-ASCII character in your signature.

It sounds like it's probably an issue with non-ASCII characters...the database doesn't tend to like them. I'll have to look it up in more detail though.

It sounds like it's probably an issue with non-ASCII characters...the database doesn't tend to like them. I'll have to look it up in more detail though.

Why does it work with the Old CP then?

If I knew that, I wouldn't need to look it up in more detail.

I have fixed the issue with signatures, which is due to changes in encoding standards and the default functionality in one of the PHP functions that handle form input.

When the Wintreath website was created back in 2013, the standard was still to set encoding to ISO-8859-1, which at the relevant functions in PHP, such as the one that handles our form input, utilized by default. However, since then that standard has changed to UTF-8, and in an update of PHP some time ago that default behaviour was changed to utilize that standard instead, which meant the form was being sent in a different encoding than was expected. I'm not horribly familiar with encoding issues, but apparently since ASCII characters are encoded pretty much the same, this mismatch would only make itself known with non-ASCII characters.

After doing some research, I overrode the default behaviour and changed it back to ISO-8859-1. The forums still use this standard, and from what I've read updating the forums at this point would be a bigger pain in the ass than it's worth. Obviously, the forums need to be in sync with what the website uses, or else you'd run into problems if you tried using BOTH the new and old CP.

I have fixed the issue with signatures, which is due to changes in encoding standards and the default functionality in one of the PHP functions that handle form input.

When the Wintreath website was created back in 2013, the standard was still to set encoding to ISO-8859-1, which at the relevant functions in PHP, such as the one that handles our form input, utilized by default. However, since then that standard has changed to UTF-8, and in an update of PHP some time ago that default behaviour was changed to utilize that standard instead, which meant the form was being sent in a different encoding than was expected. I'm not horribly familiar with encoding issues, but apparently since ASCII characters are encoded pretty much the same, this mismatch would only make itself known with non-ASCII characters.

After doing some research, I overrode the default behaviour and changed it back to ISO-8859-1. The forums still use this standard, and from what I've read updating the forums at this point would be a bigger pain in the ass than it's worth. Obviously, the forums need to be in sync with what the website uses, or else you'd run into problems if you tried using BOTH the new and old CP.

Tested, still doesn't work.

I'm testing it and I don't see a problem with characters that were a problem before...

What exact character are you using?

I'm testing it and I don't see a problem with characters that were a problem before...

What exact character are you using?

Accented é. Take a look at my signature if you want more details.

I'm able to include accented é in my signature from the new user CP without the signature disappearing.

Have you tried clearing out your browser cache?