"Peter Markley" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>
> I was browsing a very old forum thread of mine (posted under a lost account
> "Quartz") and noticed the problem happening to messages there also:
>
https://news.povray.org/povray.advanced-users/thread/%3Cweb.4e5f0af057ee503f2b8e18870%40news.povray.org%3E/?mtop=4245
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> &moff=10
>
> What's telling here is that:
> 1. I don't remember experiencing this problem back then, and
> 2. The conversation seems to acknowledge the missing portions of the messages,
> as if they were still visible at the time
>
> At least for that old thread, I feel like this points toward the problem being
> merely on output/display, i.e. that the messages still exist intact in the
> website's storage.

There was a site-wide crash in March of 2021, and the problem started after
that.  Lines with non-ASCII characters disappeared in the Web view of articles
posted prior to the crash, but they still show up in Thunderbird.

> I'm not sure if that logic applies equally to new messages posted today, but
> there it is

For articles posted after the crash, the behavior has changed.  I haven't
figured out exactly when non-ASCII lines disappear and when they are retained,
but it seems to be less of a problem with the newer messages.  But I've also
just been avoiding non-ASCII characters (which feels awkward when we're
discussing Bezier curves).

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