Results 1 to 7 of 7

Thread: Hey Kelly, What's in a Percentage??

  1. #1
    Technical Fellow
    Join Date
    Feb 2011
    Posts
    1,043

    Hey Kelly, What's in a Percentage??

    Ahhhh - ha!!!!

    Check Bob's post here and see he too gets the code value for his use of the Percent sign...

    To wit... "give you a hole that is 39% of the area of"

    I'm guessing that started out as "give you a hole that is 39% of the area of"

    http://www.engineersedge.com/enginee...ull=1#post1473

    Now the weird thing I have discovered is that only the first use of the % sign in a post gets converted to it's code equivalent. Once that has been done, all future uses of the % are left intact. Notice that all the % signs I have used are intact as % signs.

    Methinks there is a 100% chance a bug is crawling the forum software.

  2. #2
    Technical Fellow Kelly_Bramble's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2011
    Location
    Bold Springs, GA
    Posts
    2,625
    % interesting... %

  3. #3
    Technical Fellow Kelly_Bramble's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2011
    Location
    Bold Springs, GA
    Posts
    2,625
    % testing again %

  4. #4
    Technical Fellow Kelly_Bramble's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2011
    Location
    Bold Springs, GA
    Posts
    2,625
    % Let's see here... %

  5. #5
    Technical Fellow Kelly_Bramble's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2011
    Location
    Bold Springs, GA
    Posts
    2,625
    Nyuk, Nyuk --- % works now! %

  6. #6
    Technical Fellow Kelly_Bramble's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2011
    Location
    Bold Springs, GA
    Posts
    2,625
    FYI, the forum software was just fine. The problem was my server Apache/PHP needed to be compiled with iconv. Iconv converts text from one encoding to another.

    I suspect this iconv thing has been around for awhile - since about the year um.... 2000.

    Live and learn....

  7. #7
    Technical Fellow
    Join Date
    Feb 2011
    Posts
    1,043
    Quote Originally Posted by Kelly Bramble View Post
    Nyuk, Nyuk --- % works now! %
    Oh dear, the worst kind of error, human error! LOL

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •