Pekka
Level: Smiter
Rank Points: 302
Registered: 09-19-2007
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EDIT: Since making this post I've changed my signature.

I set up a new sig. While doing it I discovered that the signature I tried to set kept vanishing when I used the ellipsis character. I worked around this by using three periods in a row, which I suppose is wholly acceptable. But there may be a bug having to do with special characters at play. (Special here means it's just a Unicode character outside the basic ASCII range. Though I don't know if other Unicode character do this, I just came across this with the ellipsis character in question.)

I think this is repeatable for my account. If I take the text as currently appears on my signature, but remove the three consecutive periods and have the ellipsis character (actual copy of the character below) in its place, I cannot set it as my signature. If I press submit on the Modify page, the field for the signature just ends up empty.

If I don't use this particular character, my sig works just fine. You should be able to see it right now in fact.

EDIT: Since the bug is confirmed, I will now place the request for replicating it into a secret tag. You don't need to read it, we now know that several Unicode characters can cause the problem and the thread is marked as a confirmed bug.

Here's the ellipsis character I used: …

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[Last edited by Pekka at 09-05-2012 05:27 PM : just mentioning I've changed my sig (not that anyone would be confused )]

Damien
Level: Delver
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I just post some special characters (accented letters and the like) in mine, and it turned out empty as well.

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[Last edited by Damien at 08-22-2012 04:45 AM]

Pekka
Level: Smiter
Rank Points: 302
Registered: 09-19-2007
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I made a few quick tests and found out that sometimes the signature vanishes and sometimes one of the characters ends up being substituted by a numeric code, which allowed the site to keep the signature. Here are two one-word signatures that did not work for me. Bold tags added so they stand out.

¡Hola!

Kääk!

(Kääk is a Finnish interjection )

When I tried the Polish barred L with the name Łukasiewicz, it turned into this (which should be six character before the letter u, of which three are digits):

Łukasiewicz

That apparently worked as a signature, though I removed it and went back to the one I had earlier. This probably means we can work around this feature by using numeric codes for the special letters. Still, it's a bit odd that if you sig is not valid, it just is removed without any warning. So I hope that the admins will treat this as a low-priority bug and look at it some day.