Broken custom titles

I found these a few days back and was directed to take them here:

• Gorō Naya
• Rokurō Naya

And I just found a bunch more on the Names To Know In Anime index, nearly all with the same ō problem (a couple have broken ū symbols instead):

• Seizō Katō
• Kōji Totani
• Ichirō Nagai
• Takayuki Kondō
• Ryōko Shintani
• Ryōko Ono
• Ryōhei Kimura
• Kanae Itō
• Fuyuka Ōura
• Yōko Ogai
• Tōru Ōkawa
• Tōru Ōhira
• Tōru Furuya
• Tōru Furusawa
• Ryūsei Nakao
• Ryōtarō Okiayu
• Miki Itō
• Kinryū Arimoto
• Kenyū Horiuchi
• Kentarō Itō
• Kazuya Ichijō
• Banjo Ginga

edited 15th Dec '14 4:19:40 PM by MissMokushiroku

Hopefully setting my encoding to ISO-8859-13 will allow me to take care of it. I just put a Custom Wikiword request in for one, it'll take a while to see if it's approved or if it just changes it to the same error. If we find a consistent way to deal with them, them this can go in the Long Term or Short Term projects forums.

EDIT: I meant 13, Baltic encoding.

edited 18th Dec '14 8:51:02 AM by TheOneWhoTropes

Keeper of The Celestial Flame

Well, what you did did fix the way the custom title appears in the queue. The problem is not how the custom title is sent (I can fix broken character entities before approving them), but that after approving, the custom title works for a while and then breaks.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Sounds like a problem with the wiki encoding. Another bug that drewski et al. will need to look at.

Keeper of The Celestial Flame

'Twould be so nice to convert the wiki software over to UTF-8 so we don't get these encoding issues.

edited 18th Dec '14 9:03:44 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

But it didn't stick because Auto-detect was on!, ARGH!, I'll put them all through again, later if they don't take. I don't know how I'll get things with symbols in to work, that was the one that really stumped everyone.

edited 18th Dec '14 9:12:24 AM by TheOneWhoTropes

Keeper of The Celestial Flame

Hmm, I was wondering if the Custom Title Request form was encoded differently than the rest of the wiki, but no, it auto-detects as ISO-8859-1, just like everything else.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

I fixed all the requested custom titles, but we need a tech level fix for this. I had to fix previous titles on these pages already.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Adding Grey's Anatomy to the custom titles which don't propagate properly.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Not sure it's part of this problem or just a misguided custom title request, but My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is once again displaying with a lowercase "is". It is wrong under any title capitalization rules, since it's a verb.

Huh. The work page shows it as "is" as does most of the Internet. Wikipedia shows it as uppercase.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Does "broken title" also include cases where a trope and a work share the exact same name, and thus under the current system ^note That is, the system as it has been after Eddie's final major tweak to it last year, which removed namespace differentiation as a solution to a namespace-related problem would share any custom title? Because that's what's afflicting The Informant and Freak Out.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

It also affects Free.

simple as

That is not a bug; it's how the system is designed. No changes to it are currently planned until the big site redesign project later in the year.

The preferred technique is to de-customize titles that conflict and use potholes instead.

edited 28th Jan '15 8:44:18 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

<blink-blink> There's another major redesign in the works? Man, I should keep better tabs on this stuff.

Alright. I'll do it to the three cases cited so far. But we will need to figure out a way to collect all other instances that we may not be aware of right now, so as to apply this workaround to them as well.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

Could someone fix Blake's 7? It shows up fine on the work pages, as Blake's 7, but not on the links. Put in several requests but they don't seem to make a difference.

I don't think that one can be fixed except by admin level intervention.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Oh, drat

Custom titles seem to have broken again recently, including Az Erdő Kapitánya and several mentioned in the OP.

Relaying any further custom title issues to the Query Bugs noticeboard, so locking.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman