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Chris Maunder wrote: However, certain HTML tags are filtered out
Such as?
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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script and objects
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Just received an e-mail [^]starting with:
"This offer has been sent by The Code Project on behalf of our sponsors. Allowing us to send you an occasional email such as this is a great way of supporting your favorite resource site. If you experience difficulty viewing this message, you can view it online here."
Fine so far; then it continues in French ("Comment sécuriser vos applications .NET ?"),
and I stopped reading.
The European continent may be a bit complex for outsiders, we have more than 20 countries
over here, and more than 20 languages; some countries mainly use a single language
(Germany, France, UK, Italy), a lot of countries use several languages and their
inhabitants do not always like to be addressed in the "wrong language".
I don't mind reading, writing or speaking French when that seems appropriate, e.g.
in personal contacts; from a commercial company that wants to sell stuff in Belgium
(and some other European countries) I expect the courtesy of being addressed in the
right language or a neutral language (that would be English here); they should be aware
most inhabitants are sensitive about linguistic issues, so offering in the wrong language
would generate a bad impression, and no business whatsoever.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: The European continent may be a bit complex for outsiders, we have more than 20 countries
over here, and more than 20 languages
I think I've heard mention something about there being more than one country in Europe. I should Google it... :P
The problem isn't the language the problem is the targeting of the email. We try and send emails that are in specific languages only to members who are actually in that country but the only way we can do that is using a geotargeting service based on IP address. Unfortunately IP address blocks change constantly so this targeting is only about 95-98% correct.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: a geotargeting service based on IP address
really?? I would not expect a mail system to care about IP addresses. And I would not
really base a language choice on a geoprahical location either.
But anyhow, you can send me the Dutch version, and I'll give it my full attention.
However if that is not available (as I suspect), I suggest you don't go and hide behind
technical issues, and stop treating Belgium as speaking French only.
You could add a field to the user's profile asking for an ordered list of acceptable
languages. Then people could fill in "English", "Dutch English", "French English",
or whatever they choose, and you could use the first available language. And for most
countries, I would suggest treating an empty field as "English" and nothing else.
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In that case, I want my emails in my native Geordie as I live in the independent free state of Newcastle.
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Howay the lads and lasses in Newcastle.
Yee canna expect Chris & co te knaa which fowk speak geordie at hyem.
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Whay aye bonnie lad. Thar knaars thar Geordie thar. Whey thars reet aboot war wor lass speak at hyem.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Whay aye bonnie lad
Well thank you sir.
yee are a canny good gadgie yorsel.
me marra google speaks geordie aal dyah[^]
we'll betta stop this, the CP language polliss will hunt weh doon. 
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Thar was git canny. Tha made me laugh - an noo the toon's back winnin' matches agyen, ahm a happy bugger. Whey, thar bastads wanted hingin' befoor.
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I hope Chris isn't going to send Geordie ads now; my friend Google isn't very useful
in the reverse translation...
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Luc Pattyn wrote: I suggest you don't go and hide behind technical issues
I'm not hiding behind technical issues: I'm merely stating what we do and we thought this was inoffensive but you've clearly pointed out the error of our ways.
We've asked advertisers to provide English-only emails from now on.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
I don't mind you send French e-mails to French speaking people in France, in Belgium,
where ever you like. Dito for Spanish, Italian, German, etc. I do not suggest you narrow
everything down to English, some will see that as Anglo-Imperialism; and not all your
sponsors may agree with it either.
I do suggest you take cultural differences into account and let people opt-in for the
language choices. Having the site based on ASP.NET should make that easy...
Greetings,
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Well, good luck for Belgium then 
For example, both Luc and I come from Belgium but he speaks dutch and I speak french. There are 3 official languages in Belgium (ok, very few people speak german, so chances to have a german speaking belgian on CP is very low).
Same for Switzerland, they also have several languages.
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Have been unable to alter some of the items on the 'My Settings' page. In particular I wanted to change my signature but the change does not appear to stick. I have made the change, saved and then navigated away and back again and the data appears to have reverted. I also made the change, saved, signed out, cleared the cache and re-entered with the same result.
Ta.
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I have something similar - when I try to change options, I get an error about how my username is already in use!
Peace!
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Remove the space before your username.
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Reading and navigating in forums very quick however when I post a *new* message there is what feels like a 15-30 second delay before the post is complete and the page reloads showing my post. Updating an existing message as I'm doing right now takes the more normal 2-5 seconds.
"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."
- David Ogilvy
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Sounds like it's an index write issue. I'll check
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Yikes! The delay has increased substantially...do the opposite of what you just did. 
Whoops! I take that back, this post only took 10 seconds, but the one in the lounge just took 30. Maybe different message boards are taking different amounts of time, indexes sounds about right, the lounge is pretty "heavy" I'm sure.
"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."
- David Ogilvy
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Turns out it was 0 disk space on one of the servers. So much for our monitoring systems... 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I think it could be a good idea to create a new message board, dedicated to Direct X, XNA and Open gl (Game programming, 2d/3d graphics)
What do you guys think of this idea?
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ProcessStartupInfo.AintNotCreateNoWindow = (false && !true) != (true || false) ? false == true ? true : false : (true != false && false);
Morgonen är tröttmans mecka
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There is the "Graphics" forum.
Maxwell Chen
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I love the site, and as a software developer, there is a wealth of information and support here.
But I also deal with reporting, and there seems to be no support for reporting here.
I would like to see a reporting forum, or maybe even a business intelligence forum.
Anyone agree?
BobP
http://bobp1339.blogspot.com/
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