Hmm, ok, does that mean I should resubmit the title in question? (As a Linux user, I assure you I won't attempt to use Microsoft's proprietary "smart" quotes, nor will I bother with proper unicode slanted double quotes, “ and ”.
edited 28th Jul '12 5:21:24 PM by Xtifr
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.I also encountered this issue with Meet My Good Friends Lefty and Righty. Should be "Meet My Good Friends, "Lefty" and "Righty"", but it's presently "Meet My Good Friends,".
Moon◊It turns out that ampersands don't work any more either? I moved Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell (which has an ampersand) to the Literature/ namespace, and submitted a custom title request, but Shimaspawn told me that it didn't work, so the namespaced version still shows as Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.
edited 6th Sep '12 1:57:23 AM by Xtifr
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.Y'know, I kind of wonder what would happen if we escaped the quotation marks (eg: I Call Her "Vera" would be I Call Her \\"Vera\\")? Would that fix anything, irrespective of any back-end fixes?
I don't really have a good dummy article to test this on, though.
edited 11th Oct '12 11:22:14 AM by ShadowHog
Moon◊I'm pretty sure my computer encodes ampersand as ASCII (which is a proper subset of UTF-8 and TV Trope's default latin1/iso8859-1). If there's another way I should be encoding it, let me know, and I'm sure I can arrange it. With 30+ years of software development experience and a vast array of network tools and libraries at my fingertips, I'm sure I can arrange to send any sequence of bits down the wire that you might desire. :)
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.If anyone can find a proper way to make a macron appear I'd be grateful. The custom title widget doesn't give me a legit code for macrons.
edited 12th Oct '12 1:05:33 PM by lu127
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - FighteerDoes it work with HTML? Then, here
could be a help.
By the way, the problem mentioned earlier with ampersands seems to have been silently fixed. Ampersands once again work in custom titles. I wonder if the problem with double-quotes has also been fixed while we weren't looking? (I don't have a convenient page to test with.)
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.

So Shimaspawn suggested that the reason my custom title for E. E. "Doc" Smith got rejected is because of technical problems with double-quotes. If this is the case (I still haven't gotten confirmation), then it's a regression, because double-quotes used to work, as with EE Doc Smith (the non-namespaced version of the same article; now a redirect).
As a programmer myself, I realize that handling special characters safely and correctly can be both tricky and frustrating, but I really don't want to start fixing the wicks on this one until the proper custom title is in place.
If all else fails, I suppose I could use single-quotes, but that's more the British style, and Doc Smith was an American author, so I'd rather not, unless Eddie or someone says that's the only option. If it's simply a matter of waiting until Eddie has time to fix the problem, I can wait. But I'd kind of like to know one way or the other what is, or is likely to be, going on.
TIA
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edited 28th Jul '12 1:06:10 PM by Xtifr
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.