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Birthday error?
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AiedailEclipsed
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Its a special character name. More than likely your browser doesn't know how to support those characters. Which browser?
EDIT: Okie. NOW, I get what your talking about. I suppose its a glitch with vB and the language (Arabic maybe?)
EDIT: Okie. NOW, I get what your talking about. I suppose its a glitch with vB and the language (Arabic maybe?)
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Check the edit.
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Aie's suspicions are correct. The language is Arabic, which is read right-to-left.
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Technically, no. Thats just how the system thinks it should look like. But its not even displayed properly as you may see by the brackets.
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I can see it properly... and yeah, it looks like arabic or something to me.
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Well. If the entire board was in, say, Arabic or Hebrew that'd be correct. The board is doing what is right for the language.
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For me it's like this
on all my browsers. And it's the same on my iPod touch as well.
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Basically, because Arabic is written Right-to-Left, vB renders that name (and by extension, age) Right-to-Left, but not the ending bracket. Because the rest of the forum is Left-to-Right, this looks odd.
For the geeks, the code probably looks something like this:
[*Name* (*Age*])
The end parenthesis being outside the variable usually shouldn't make a problem, and will make loading a little bit faster, because less has to be determined, but when the variable is in Right-to-Left, vBulletin flips the variable, but not what's outside the variable, resulting in this:
[*Age*) *Name*])
Because vBulletin was made for English forums.
*This post is only my educated guess, and could be completely wrong
For the geeks, the code probably looks something like this:
[*Name* (*Age*])
The end parenthesis being outside the variable usually shouldn't make a problem, and will make loading a little bit faster, because less has to be determined, but when the variable is in Right-to-Left, vBulletin flips the variable, but not what's outside the variable, resulting in this:
[*Age*) *Name*])
Because vBulletin was made for English forums.
*This post is only my educated guess, and could be completely wrong