Chris has previously expressed his distaste for the "let me Google that for you" site. However, if someone posts a question that shows zero effort, which the poster could easily have solved by typing their question into a search engine and reading some of the results, then "google it" can be a perfectly valid response. Aside from the ongoing enshitification of Google's results, the main reason for it becoming less useful as an answer is the huge number of almost-identical questions with "google it" as the answer, which push the actual answer further down the list. But that's not an argument against "google it" answers; that's an argument for closing the low-quality zero-effort questions so that they're not indexed by search engines. "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

Member 16359559 wrote: displayed correctly under html in Debian 9, but not later. I would start with the assumptions in there. A stored character has a binary representation. There is no way you can see a character until it is 'translated' into a viewer. Doesn't matter what the viewer is it still must do that translation. And sometimes there is more than one translation in the pipeline (for example database to driver, to a 'string', then to 'html', then to a browser.) Member 16359559 wrote: Greek alphabet That also is an assumption. There is a character set, a binary representation, which is used for a 'language'. It will have a specific name. So you really need to determine what that is. Then the steps First extract the binary data from the database. Probably test data. Determine if the form is correct. That is does the binary value (hex or binary) match the character set. Note that if you attempt this by displaying a 'character' then you are not doing it correctly. If the binary value is not correct for the character set then nothing you can do in the code will fix that. Second step determine the pipeline from binary to display. This does include the driver between the whatever application/code that reads the database itself. For each step you must determine whether the binary value retains its original correct value. If you find a step where it is wrong then you have found where the problem is. You should also look for a different way to view the data besides html and a browser. Even just initially that might be the easiest way to determine if those are the problem.

I needed the C++ compiler locally, not the IDE. Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

The site pops up an ad without a close button every 15-30 seconds, making the thing virtually unreadable. What I did read sounded like [old man grumbling sound]... :rolleyes: Software Zen: delete this;

You have done well HTW In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

I have a book, a collection called "Great Short Stories of the English Speaking World" (or something like that) whose foreword explains that writing a great short story is far harder than writing a great novel. Perhaps the principle is more widely applicable than I thought!

Once again you help me, OriginalGriff. I'll Think about. Thanks.

Kent Sharkey wrote: In case you feel the need to smarten up your programs I would be more than happy, if they just worked as I expect :sigh: M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

This particular code is really complicated. Look at this mess typedef struct NSVGattrib { char id[64]; float xform[6]; gfx::rgba_pixel<32> fillColor; gfx::rgba_pixel<32> strokeColor; float opacity; float fillOpacity; float strokeOpacity; char fillGradient[64]; char strokeGradient[64]; float strokeWidth; float strokeDashOffset; float strokeDashArray[NSVG_MAX_DASHES]; int strokeDashCount; svg_line_join strokeLineJoin; svg_line_cap strokeLineCap; float miterLimit; svg_fill_rule fillRule; float fontSize; gfx::rgba_pixel<32> stopColor; float stopOpacity; float stopOffset; char hasFill; char hasStroke; char visible; } NSVGattrib; using reader_t = ml_reader_ex<2048>; struct svg_css_class { char selector[512]; char* value; svg_css_class* next; }; struct svg_parse_result { reader_t* reader; svg_css_class* css_classes; svg_css_class* css_class_tail; void* (*allocator)(size_t); void* (*reallocator)(void*, size_t); void (*deallocator)(void*); char lname[32]; char aname[512]; char avalue[512]; char style_val[256]; char class_val[128]; char* d; size_t d_size; NSVGattrib attr[NSVG_MAX_ATTR]; int attrHead; float* pts; int npts; int cpts; svg_path* plist; size_t image_size; svg_image_info* image; NSVGgradientData* gradients; svg_shape* shapesTail; float viewMinx, viewMiny, viewWidth, viewHeight; int alignX, alignY, alignType; float dpi; char pathFlag; char defsFlag; }; I highlighted the portion of the inner structure I forgot to initialize (the head attribute, as the rest are copied from that) Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

Another Visual Studio update almost always comes with a new set bugs. This one is no exception. They have broken Find In Files this time. "They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

Kent Sharkey wrote: Not as many references to AI as I would have expected They are probably trying to use other forms to refer to it Article wrote:: that will help you find and resolve bugs faster and easier than ever before. That sounds pretty implied AI for me ;) M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

"Much becomes obvious in hindsight, ... Yet it is striking how in both physics and mathematics there is a lack of ­proportion between the effort needed to understand something for the first time and the simplicity and naturalness of the solution once all the required stages have been completed." - Giorgio Parisi, recipient of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics

More of consequence to me than anything. :) Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

Oh yeah, it's here! :thumbsup: The other day I was testing one of our APIs that returns XML. One of the attributes is a day count which in many cases is legitimately a 0. The AI Copilot in Edge noticed this and helpfully said something like 'It looks like you are viewing a code snippet...then analyzing the content and making suggestions about day counts being 0 and such. :wtf: Thankfully, there is a way to ignore it and continue. Your experience though seems pretty impressive especially if you indeed prefer chocolate. :thumbsup: "Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"