names with weird characters confusing Wagn+discussion

fyi this is a Wagn that I'd like to archive and save the $5/mth, but I need to grab the contact info first. Not super-urgent, but would be nice to have a fix.


this is weird.

 

it seems like you can workaround by going to Person+*type+by_name, which somehow corrects things. And if nothing else you can fix the weird names that way. I wish I knew how you got in these illegal names (with trailing spaces) in the first place.

--Ethan McCutchen.....2013-06-11 18:43:39 +0000

the workaround works if i'm willing to get contact info one by one :-P - let me know if there's no chance of an all-at-once fix and I'll do that I guess.

 

the weird-character names were cut & paste from a spreadsheet

--John Abbe.....2013-06-11 20:00:22 +0000

hmm, i don't know a faster way to do it. I wasn't thinking you'd get the contact info one by one, but that you'd fix the broken names one by one. most are fine.

--Ethan McCutchen.....2013-06-11 20:07:42 +0000

Archiving the site and may never use it again, so probably a waste of time to fix the names. Looking at recent changes on the site it looks as if you and I have 'touched' many of the user cards (and their children) - http://letstalkeugene.org.718.cldstr.com/recent - no idea what that's about.

 

And now it's working - http://letstalkeugene.org.718.cldstr.com/Contact_infos (see "Audrey Brown" again) - who knows, but I"ll take it!

--John Abbe.....2013-06-11 20:54:35 +0000

I've got what I need from it. Only leaving it up in case you want to take a look, so let me know when I can take it down.

--John Abbe.....2013-06-11 21:00:32 +0000

you can take it down any time. I'm wondering if this has something to do with reference updating. But I don't think I'd get around to investigating it in time to make it worth keeping it up.

--Ethan McCutchen.....2013-06-11 22:34:53 +0000