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Anyone else have garbled email sent from Eve Gate?
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Hans Jagerblitzen
Ice Fire Warriors
#1 - 2011-11-28 05:19:51 UTC
So it appears that most of my mail (really, all of it) sent from Eve Gate has punctuation that somehow multiplies by the time its received in client -

so that

"I'm not worried about others"

comes out as

"I & # 3 9 ; m not worried about others" (without spaces - apparently this is HTML code.)

This is incredibly annoying, and especially so if someone wants to publish or forward something that is sent via email, and has to go through and correct all the garbled punctuation.

Is this a known bug that is being worked on, CCP? I'd love to see this go away.....Eve Gate is so limited its a shame that even basic email service is so problematic.

Apologies if there's already a thread on this matter....

CPM0 Chairman / CSM7 Vice Secretary
Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#2 - 2011-11-28 05:26:18 UTC
hasn＆#39;t happened to me

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Hans Jagerblitzen
Ice Fire Warriors
#3 - 2011-11-28 05:29:42 UTC
Andski wrote:
hasn＆#39;t happened to me



Hahahaha. Yeah, I figured this is a common occurance. I'm just wondering whether its on the Dev's radar and is looking at a fix soon...

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Poetic Stanziel
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2011-11-28 07:24:35 UTC
I got one that said "Выиграйте бесплатный iPod сегодня. Контакт Mittani." I even held it up to a mirror and could not make sense of it.
Jonas Xiamon
#5 - 2011-11-28 07:29:37 UTC
Happens all time to me, is interesting bug, please squash.

I usally write one of these and then change it a month later when I reread it and decide it sounds stupid.
Astrid Stjerna
Sebiestor Tribe
#6 - 2011-11-28 08:15:24 UTC
Jonas Xiamon wrote:
Happens all time to me, is interesting bug, please squash.


It's not really something they can squash -- occasionally, a message board chokes and spits out HTML instead of punctuation.

I can't get rid of my darn signature!  Oh, wait....
Hans Jagerblitzen
Ice Fire Warriors
#7 - 2011-11-28 08:16:46 UTC
Astrid Stjerna wrote:
Jonas Xiamon wrote:
Happens all time to me, is interesting bug, please squash.


It's not really something they can squash -- occasionally, a message board chokes and spits out HTML instead of punctuation.


Point is, its not occasionally. It's literally happening to every mail that I send from EveGate, the punctuation is showing up as HTML when its read on tranquility.

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Pierced Brosmen
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2011-11-28 08:19:50 UTC
Also if formatting text when sending eve-mail from eve gate the formatted parts sometimes just dissappear from the mail when sent.
ThisIsntMyMain
Doomheim
#9 - 2011-11-28 08:49:53 UTC
It's a result of converting the in game mail XML format into HTML. Its a pretty common error in conversion and what you see in Eve Gate mails are the HTML display of the XML escape coding.

It's not an "occasional" error - it's absolutely repeating and yes, it needs to be squashed. Easier said than done however.
Hans Jagerblitzen
Ice Fire Warriors
#10 - 2011-11-28 08:59:25 UTC
ThisIsntMyMain wrote:
It's a result of converting the in game mail XML format into HTML. Its a pretty common error in conversion and what you see in Eve Gate mails are the HTML display of the XML escape coding.

It's not an "occasional" error - it's absolutely repeating and yes, it needs to be squashed. Easier said than done however.


Kinda makes sense. I don't really know anything about HTML though, or any other programming for that matter. I'm just hoping a Dev has seen this and can let us know if they're working on it or not....

CPM0 Chairman / CSM7 Vice Secretary