DOS ain't dead

Here I will post any changes regarding the DOS ain't dead forum. Changes can be technical or organizational. For different topics I will create a sub-thread with a proper subject line. You are free to comment.

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Dunno, how many of you use RSS to follow this forum, but I already noticed years ago new DOS ain't dead feed items show up in my feed reader (Feedbro) one or two hours behind the creation of the posting. The obvious reason are time zones.

my little forum software tells a feed reader it is using GMT (#1) for the pubDate timestamp, where in fact it uses the server's local time (#1) in my setup. Changing 'Forum time difference \ Time difference between server and forum time' (#1, #2) felt 'unnatural' to me and would cause shifting of the time display in web browsers for existing postings. And I would probably have to change this setting twice a year.

So, three days ago I just replaced GMT with %z (PHP: strftime - Manual) and the results in web browser and feed reader look fine to me.

What are your observations?

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> What are your observations?

Nobody?

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Starting from the issue with the Cyrillic letter О I noticed the same for Cyrillic А.

Because I expected trouble with many other international characters, I now used a 'brute-force approach' to convert each database table to the utf8mb4 character set and set utf8mb4_unicode_ci for collation.
For that I had to change each table's engine from MyISAM to InnoDB.
I also set the database connection to use utf8mb4 (utf8 before) and changed the HTML charset from ISO-8859-1 to utf-8.

I wanted to do that already many years ago, but my MySQL knowledge is very limited.
There may be some side effects. If you find any, please report them here.

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The users online counter in the footer no longer includes guest users, 'thanks' to bots, crawlers, and AI scrapers frequently visiting this forum and making this number useless.

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To make {code} sections more visually readable, they are now formatted in red and bold.
Below you find an example for ecm's ROM-BIOS leaves ds and es limits beyond 64 KiB.

Before:



After:

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I just added these, because it was easy to do so.

* Subscript: The quick brown fox jumps _under the lazy dog.
* Superscript: The quick brown fox jumps ^over the lazy dog.

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Reply for testing e-mail notification:

> * Subscript: The quick brown fox jumps _under the lazy dog.
> * Superscript: The quick brown fox jumps ^over the lazy dog.

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A cosmetic change: The bottom right link now points to my fork on GitHub.

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single sup

10¹⁰

double sup

10^10[sup]10[/sup]

Doesn't work! So you cannot really talk about the Big Freeze here...

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MS-DOS forever!

> single sup
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> 10¹⁰
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> double sup
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> 10^10[sup]10[/sup]
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> Doesn't work! So you cannot really talk about the Big Freeze here...

(I took the liberty of moving your post to this thread.)

That's the expected behavior and caused by the simple Regex-based BBCode parser.

So, yes, no talk about the Big Freeze or my account balance.

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