User talk:GregCoomer

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"contact me with lots of spam" You should have left the guy's edit like that, gave me a chuckle. ;) --Tom Edwards 13:51, 28 Jun 2005 (PDT)

Gave me one to, by the way, nice birdie :D -- Fragrag 11:23, 29 Jun 2005 (PDT)

I can see that testing Japanese content without any problem. I think it works alright on other Japanese browsers, too. I'm looking forward to what to come.N-neko

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It keeps switching between proper Japanese (or Russian) text and a disintegrated UTF-8 for me - it either displays properly or I get '�¯�·Ñ‹�º�¸'-style junk. This is Safari 2.0 on a Mac, and it normally copes fine with stuff like this. I've checked the HTTP-Equiv stuff in the HTML and the actual HTTP headers and they both report the page as 'text/html; charset=utf-8'...

Hmm. After a bit of research it appears that, since the site's using XHTML (which is basically XML), each page should open with a '<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>' at the beginning. I've no idea how one would go about fixing MediaWiki's templates (or whatever it uses), but there's a solution. For all one of us who use Macs. :-] ---Cargo Cult 08:37, 11 Aug 2005 (PDT)

Cargo, can you point me to where the standard for this is explained, or to a site which uses this header correctly? -- Greg

The W3C's standard (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#strict) has this to say:

"An XML declaration is not required in all XML documents; however XHTML document authors are strongly encouraged to use XML declarations in all their documents. Such a declaration is required when the character encoding of the document is other than the default UTF-8 or UTF-16 and no encoding was determined by a higher-level protocol."

So it sounds like Safari's definitely at fault, assuming that this is the cause of the problem. I can report it as a bug to Apple, if you like... ;-] --Cargo Cult 16:19, 11 Aug 2005 (PDT)

I get the classic microsoft screen full of little boxes  :) --Invader Zim

InvaderZim, what OS & Browser are you using? Thanks, -- Greg

I'm on windowsXP with Internet Explorer, and by the way it can display that russian stuff from cargo, just not whats on your user page -- InvaderZim

I get a lot of question marks with some splashings of words like "xbox" - Windows XP - Deer park alpha 2 ^Ben 10:31, 11 Aug 2005 (PDT)

Having Asian fonts installed is required to see this content correctly. I believe the existing encoding in the page header is correct. If you'd like to try it out, in WindowsXP (sorry, Cargo) go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages and then click the box which reads "Install files for East Asian languages". -- Greg

I see Russian texts here, too. Testing with Japanese... èµ·ã??ã?¦ç?°ã?®åŒ‚ã?„ã‚’å—…ã??ã?®ã?§ã?™ N-neko

Why don't you lock your user page? —Ts2do 22:33, 20 Sep 2005 (PDT)

Deleting

The Candidates for speedy deletion list is getting quite impressive. It might be nice for someone to actually delete the worthless entries. Since I want all available Valve people hard at work on turning out high-quality Half-Life content (<cracks whip>), how about making someone a temporary, limited admin (if such a thing is possible). I volunteer, and promise to behave. If that's too presumptuous, I nominate wisemx or Cargo Cult. —Maven ^(talk) 13:04, 6 Oct 2005 (PDT)

Hurrah! Thanks for cleaning up. —Maven ^(talk) 17:35, 7 Oct 2005 (PDT)

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Spammer needs a ban (http://developer.valvesoftware.com/w/index.php?title=Category%3ASteam_Games&diff=0&oldid=12190). :) --TomEdwards 02:13, 14 Oct 2005 (PDT)

I agree... BAN HIM!—Pon ^(talk) 02:25, 14 Oct 2005 (PDT)

Check out Category:Spammers—ts2do ^(talk) 05:18, 14 Oct 2005 (PDT)