All,
I have noticed a few posts that have made some suggestions about forum enhancements.
As we're migrating and enhancing the site, there may be an opportunity to enhance the forum, as well. Some of the suggestions I have seen are:
If you have any opinions on these or other enhancements/modifications, please post here or email me directly at david.lively@arm.com.
Page width limits Add hard rules for maximum page width. If someone does post a 300 character long source line, the whole thread gets messed up almost completely.
True unicode Not sure, but it seems like this forum may now possibly support Unicode (extra hard to test since the preview seems to just have died - it just shows the post I'm responding to but not the preview of my new post). It has for a long time claimed support, but characters have been destroyed in the process.
This is what the swedish characters a-ring, a-umlaut, o-umlaut looks like on this forum: åäöÅÄÖ I also tested with two cyrillic characters, but then the preview page ended after the parent message, i.e. without showing any preview - and no 'post' button either.
@Per what browser are you using?
Right now IE 8, and the swedish characters came out fine, but it wasn't possible to post data containing cyrillic.
Earlier, the swedish characters always ended up as two-character combos.
Here is an old post with a poster using non-latin characters in his name: http://www.keil.com/forum/docs/thread16171.asp
Here is another: http://www.keil.com/forum/docs/thread15996.asp
A third: http://www.keil.com/forum/docs/thread15797.asp
In this case, the name should have been "Åke"
In these posts, the multi-byte data of UTF8 have somewhere been converted into separate characters.
This problem might have been fixed, with the exception that some unicode characters will stop the processing directly during the post stage.
Try for example to post a U+0416 (Cyrillic capital Zhe) Post button and preview will disappear with both Firefox 3.6.6 or IE 8.
And posting a capital greek omega (U+03A9) will become a capital O: O
Because I suffer greatly from dyslexia of the typing fingers, a spell check in the editor would a great help to me. Bradford
My nun says that decent predictive text is a must.