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Odd Log File Montreal Glitch

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Ib3kii:
I was scrolling through my log file when I noticed something very wrong with the way Montreal was spelled. Instead of Montreal it spells Montréal.

Jim:
I'm not seeing anything in your log file for Montreal at all.  Is it the quidditch33.log?

In any case, user log files are created with a UTF-8 encoding, and if you view it as ASCII, you would see the special character which  is supposed to have an accent mark, as the ASCII equivalents.

michih:
It's a general issue with non-ASCII characters in our log files. I have entries like '(Québec)', '(Köln)' or '(Saarbrücken)'. I thought it was discussed but I couldn't find a Github issue.

Maybe it's just a minor modification for Jim like it was here: https://github.com/TravelMapping/Web/issues/50.

Edit: @Jim: A-30 (Montréal), http://tm.teresco.org/logs/michih.log.

Jim:
As far as I know, for a text file like a .log, it will be up to some sort of configuration in your web browser or whatever else you use to view the log files to determine what encoding it will choose to display.  In the other situation, I was able to specify UTF-8 for the web pages, but the logs aren't (and aren't intended to be) HTML-based web pages.

All that said, if you open a log file in a program that understands encodings, it should look fine.  I will admit, however, that I have not tried to do so.

Ib3kii:

--- Quote from: Jim on July 14, 2016, 01:49:14 pm ---I'm not seeing anything in your log file for Montreal at all.  Is it the quidditch33.log?

--- End quote ---

Sorry for the late response, but no, that was my old zzyzx file that you deleted.

Thanks,

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