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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Inspect Your Gadgets > Awful iPhone/iPad App
 
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lucky13pjn
Sep 13, 2007
Really lazy bastard

pokeyman posted:

This is a bit humbling to admit, but if anyone's curious, this happens because I can't figure out exactly what string encoding the Forums use. It seems like everything I try is wrong. Our current strategy is to try like four different ones until something works.

I really don't like having something in the app that I don't understand, even if it appears to work, so we'll definitely revisit this at some point.
Just a shot in the dark, but could it be windows-1252? I had a similar problem with a site scraping app I wrote awhile back, and that was the mystery encoding that worked for me. If someone copy/pastes a post they make from MS Word, that might do it.

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lucky13pjn
Sep 13, 2007
Really lazy bastard
I noticed that the little Ask and Tell banners superimposed over the thread icons in A/T have disappeared. I am using 1.8.1 on a iPad 3rd gen that is jailbroken.

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