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[5cardstud]

I keep seeing this in different posts and I haven't a clue what it means. Can someone tell this ignoramus what 85% means.

 

[Poppa D]

"I don't Know" quote from Gary the ......, the Howard Sten Show.

 

[Whistle_Pig]

I keep seeing this in different posts and I haven't a clue what it means. Can someone tell this ignoramus what 85% means.

There's a bug in the new version of vBulletin, where it's trying to do something with percent signs (even though there's a perfectly good usable ASCII for them). I'm guessing the whole site is now in UTF8, which should be, for the most part, a solved problem.

Anyway, what you're seeing there is 85 percent. Except the percent sign is being sent to the browser as an HTML entity, instead of the ASCII character. Except there's a bug in how vBulletin is doing this; likely it's sending additional code to "escape" the entity code, in other words, it's telling the browser to not translate it to an actual percent sign.

Anyways, it's been reported to the powers that be.

BTW, UTF8 probably doesn't have anything to do with it. It's just that switching to UTF8 from ASCII can cause these sorts of trouble, so I automatically suspect it.

 

[5cardstud]

Thank you, I've seen this in other places too that aren't ECF related. I should have known this though. Thanks again.