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^ From my perspective that is "close enough", 90% of the things I checked looked ok. Since its a english forum if some crazy IPA language is ever so slightly off, I think we will be fine. I changed some things and it looks better: http://www.bellazon.com/main/topic/8892-monica-cruz/ http://www.bellazon.com/main/topic/7265-jessica-pare http://www.bellazon.com/main/topic/7575-berenice-bejo/

it's super annoying the board can't handle accents from other language than English. It was like that before the upgrade and now it's even worse. Unfortunantly the world moved away from ISO -> UTF8 and broke a bunch of things in the process. Anyways accents on all new things should be fine should they not? -------------------------------- Testing The orthographies of some languages include devices for indicating the position of lexcial stress. Some examples are listed below. In Modern Greek, all polysyllables are written with an acute accent over the vowel in the stressed syllable. (The acute accent is also used on some monosyllables in order to distinguish homographs, as in η ("the") and ή ("or"); here the stress of the two words is the same.) In Spanish orthography, stress may be written explicitly with a single acute accent on a vowel. Stressed antepenultimate syllables are always written with this accent mark, as in árabe. If the last syllable is stressed, the accent mark is used if the word ends in the letters n, s, or a vowel, as in está. If the penultimate syllable is stressed, the accent is used if the word ends in any other letter, as in cárcel. That is, if a word is written without an accent mark, the stress is on the penult if the last letter is a vowel, n, or s, but on the final syllable if the word ends in any other letter. However as in Greek, the acute accent is also used for some words to distinguish various syntactical uses (e.g. té"tea" vs. te a form of the pronoun tú; dónde "where" as a pronoun or wh-complement, donde "where" as an adverb). Though not part of normal orthography, a number of devices exist that are used by linguists and others to indicate the position of stress (and syllabification in some cases) when it is desirable to do so. Some of these are listed here. In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), primary stress is indicated by a high vertical line before the syllable, secondary stress by a low vertical line. Example: [sɪˌlæbəfɪˈkeɪʃən] or /sɪˌlæbəfɪˈkeɪʃən/. Extra stress can be indicated by doubling the symbol: ˈˈ◌. Linguists frequently mark primary stress with an acute accent over the vowel, and secondary stress by a grave accent. Example: [sɪlæ̀bəfɪkéɪʃən] or /sɪlæ̀bəfɪkéɪʃən/. This has the advantage that it does not require a decision about syllable boundaries. In English dictionaries that show pronunciation by respelling, stress is typically marked with a prime mark placed after the stressed syllable: /si-lab′-ə-fi-kay′-shən/. In ad hoc pronunciation guides, stress is often indicated using a combination of bold text and capital letters. Example: si-lab-if-i-KAY-shun or si-LAB-if-i-KAY-shun In Russian and Ukrainian dictionaries, stress is indicated with an acute accent (´) on a syllable's vowel (example: вимовля́ння) or, in other editions, an apostrophe[6] just after it (example: гла'сная). Stressing is rare in general texts, but is still used when necessary: compare за́мок (castle) and замо́к (lock). In Dutch, ad hoc indication of stress is usually marked by an acute accent on the vowel (or, in the case of a diphthong or double vowel, the first two vowels) of the stressed syllable. Compare achterúítgang (deterioration) andáchteruitgang (back exit). Compare to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_(linguistics)#Spelling_and_notation_for_stress

Yes I am aware of that issue. We should be able to fix it.

We are doing a rebuild of all thumbnails right now, this shouldnt have affected the avatars but maybe Most of your moving avatars look ok to me. You may want to try to reupload them though. We are on 800k of like 2 million attachments (been running 24h+ now).

Yea sorry, I will add it back later, it got erased when we did the 3.3.3 upgrade yesterday

Admins/Mods can always see you, but no "regular" member can see you if you have a * by your name. And sorry I have not had a chance to look

Sorry about all the downtime, the upgrade to 3.3.3 did not go as smoothly as planned.

oooppss, sorry we were trying to debug a different issue. Let me turn that off

our provider had capped us to 10mbit, that is one of the reason the site would stutter (like hang) because it was hitting the limit and needed to wait until the bandwidth dropped to proceed sending data. Its fixed now though (although itll be expensive )

Again can you link us to your original huge image and I can play around with it as my own avatar? Thanks.

Not really, sorry. My avatar is a huge pic and it look ok to me

Can you please PM me the picture in question so I can test it out to see what you mean? Thanks

OK we are on the new hardware. Hopefully its faster. Please let me know. I will continue to tweak the settings to improve performance. I will also ask our bandwidth provider to see if he can increase our bandwidth as we are hitting capacity.

You may want to check under your Notification Options in your profile

I only see two entries in the maillog. Perhaps you have disabled email somewhere in your profile? "/var/log/maillog-20120527:May 22 04:59:52 bellazon postfix/smtp[12631]: 87BEA15A0143: to=<b*******@yahoo.co.uk>, relay=mx-eu.mail.am0.yahoodns.net[77.238.184.241]:25, delay=1.2, delays=0.04/0/0.47/0.7, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 ok dirdel) /var/log/maillog-20120603:Jun 1 13:00:27 bellazon postfix/smtp[407]: BE3E915A00ED: to=<b********@yahoo.co.uk>, relay=mx-eu.mail.am0.yahoodns.net[77.238.184.241]:25, delay=1.2, delays=0.04/0.01/0.5/0.66, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 ok dirdel)"

Got the new hardware BZ will be offline for 15-30mins while i install it later this afternoon. And we probably wont be live on the new hardware until tomorrow sometime (need to move millions of pictures over...)

^ Can you please link us to that post? Thanks.

Strange, if you can link me to a big image I can take a look. Thanks. Please try again

Testing Huge files FIXED!

welcome Regarding your sig / avatar question yea there is a thread somewhere (I think in general discussion ) to request avatar/sigs from one of the pros

We will be upgrading to faster hardware on Friday night. Pure SSD's, hopefully that solves most of our performance issues. Will be interesting to see how fast they are

BZ has been depressingly slow latey. Right now, I'm using a slow Internet connection and it's taking me forever to open a single thread/topic. And i'm using the same internet to browse another fashion forum, and it's working fine there.I think that to make things better, we need to stop using those pictures (I don't even know how it's called) that everyone has which appears under every post a member makes. I don't get it, and I think it's contributing to the slowness of the site.We shouldn't also be allowed to quote picture. They makes pages even slower. Quoting a picture is basically posting the same picture u quoted all over again. You can disable Signatures and Avatars if you wish. Click on your name at the top right of BZ then click on "My Settings" and then "Ignore Preferences" . Then you can do Ignore all avatars Ignore all signatures when reading topics Click save and that it

Strange, if you can link me to a big image I can take a look. Thanks.

Link plz? And those images are not on BZ so nothing I can do to make them load faster but maybe its a setting only allowing X thumbnails per posts. If you send me the link I will take another look.

The software did that. I am working on getting a resolution in place. (this issue has been brought up multiple times in this thread)