Event pages doctype

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Hi,

It would seem that the Event pages are not showing all scandic (ä, ö, å) letters properly at the moment (I've seen this problem with other diacritics also). In most cases the letters are showing fine, but in some fields there appears a "?" symbol instead of a scandic letter.

Example:
http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000380/ (Attribute for Best Film nominee Liisa Penttilä)

I'm guessing that this is due to the "1.0 Strict" doctype declaration of the pages. Depending on the user's local settings, this problem might not be visible in all cases, but a "Transitional" declaration should ensure that it doesn't appear at all.

Edit: tested with the latest Chrome and IE.
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Sasu Törmälä

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Posted 6 years ago

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Michelle, Official Rep

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Hi Sasu -

Thanks for reporting this and providing an example.  Our staff will take a look as soon as they can and once I hear anything I will post the information here.
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I don't think an (as ...) attribute is appropriate in the awards data. She should not have any attribute. Could that be the cause of the character error? Do you have other examples?
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Sasu Törmälä

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It looks like this is especially present in the Overview pages.

Cannes Film Festival - Overview page has problems: http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000147/overview

Mexican Cinema Journalists - Overview page: http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000433/overview

Venice Film Festival - Overview page: http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000681/overview

This is an award page "under construction", but the Overview page of "Kultainen Venla" Award has similar problems: http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0002549/overview

I'm not familiar with the db structure of IMDb, but as it effects only certain fields, the problem could also be in the db server end.
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Just following-up here, this problem has now been fixed and scandic letters are now displaying properly on the site.  Cheers!
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Sasu Törmälä

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Hi, and thank you Michelle.

Did some testing and it seems that the "Overview" pages still show this problem. You can test the pages in my second post.
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Hi Sasu -

Thanks for your note, I checked the event overview pages myself and am also still seeing the same problem.  I have reached out to our technical staff who will take another look as soon as they can.
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Michelle, Official Rep

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Following-up here, this issue has now been resolved. Cheers!
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Sasu Törmälä

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Excellent! Thank you.

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