Scrambled kanji in old posts

[Brian]

All,

As most will know, when we had the (involuntary) server move by my hosts, they managed to screw up the tables collation and scramble most of the old kanji in posts so that they became unreadable. There was no real quick way to remedy this, and since I regard many of the old posts as valuable archive materials, I have been slowly over time going back and finding all those old posts with kanji in them, and manually editing each one and correcting the kanji.

 

Since I am not able to redo the translations myself, and can't possibly ask our resident experts to redo them, this involves using the very much appreciated (and underrated!) Google cache system on each individual post and then where possible editing each post, copying the kanji, replacing them and saving the post. I have done quite a few posts that I have found so far.

 

The reason for this post is to ask everyone..in your searching and daily reading, if you come across a post with scrambled kanji in it, please drop me a pm with the link, and I will work on sorting those posts out. This is a long term project, and i don't need 100 links just yet. Many posts aren't urgent as they only contain one or 2 kanji characters, but there are some posts with extensive kanji in them that are valuable archive material. These are the ones I would like to address first. I have done many of the sayagaki ones so far, but please let me know if you see others that need doing.

 

Many thanks,

Brian

[Rich T]

Yes, that's a bummer Brian, it has happened to me as well. It is because they back up in a TXT file, and there is not multi character sets allowed in those. All the kanji goes to mush.

 

If I see anything, I will PM or email the correct kanji to you.

 

Best

 

Rich