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I just went through issues too where it suddenly wouldnt let me post after my first initial post when I joined.
Had to turn my vpn off b4 it worked, nothing else did, which is weird cause it worked at first and why even restrict that in the first place for posting, vpns are common everyday tools these days.
I get its bad for circumventing region prices ofc but not for this.
Anyways, test complete.

Funny, this post here went through even with vpn bk on.
Just had the past 3 weeks struggling trying to post on a game forum where nothing I did worked at first including turning vpn off at first. Then I left it and tried again today, nothng again worked till i turned vpn completely off, then it worked.
Then I turned it bk on same as always and this post here was put through.
Im new on GOG but have a hard time figuring out how things work here haha.
Post edited April 29, 2025 by Jinini
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Geralt_PostDemon: I just remembered I forgot an important test. German umlauts: ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß
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MarkoH01: It's called "Umlaute" ;)
Only in German speaking countries. :-)

But the english word for Umlaut is umlaut and its correct plural is indeed umlauts. See here.
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MarkoH01: It's called "Umlaute" ;)
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Geralt_PostDemon: Only in German speaking countries. :-)

But the english word for Umlaut is umlaut and its correct plural is indeed umlauts. See here.
Simply decapitalizing a pure German word is not an actual translation - it's typical american lazyness ;)
So they take the German word - keep everything as it is and apply their own grammar. For every German this simply sounds terrible. Anyway - I am glad that you include them in your test ... no matter how you call them.
Post edited April 29, 2025 by MarkoH01
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Jinini: I just went through issues too where it suddenly wouldnt let me post after my first initial post when I joined.
Had to turn my vpn off b4 it worked, nothing else did, which is weird cause it worked at first and why even restrict that in the first place for posting, vpns are common everyday tools these days.
I get its bad for circumventing region prices ofc but not for this.
Anyways, test complete.

Funny, this post here went through even with vpn bk on.
Just had the past 3 weeks struggling trying to post on a game forum where nothing I did worked at first including turning vpn off at first. Then I left it and tried again today, nothng again worked till i turned vpn completely off, then it worked.
Then I turned it bk on same as always and this post here was put through.
Im new on GOG but have a hard time figuring out how things work here haha.
Yeah, VPN and TOR worked just fine on GOG until they started to block TOR on the forum and later on the whole page a few months ago. Now it seems they are going for VPNs.

I know because I also only surf vith TOR or a VPN, except when I log into a webpage. Because when you log in anonymity is gone anyway. I don't use these for doing anything nefarious, I just don't like being tracked.

The VPN I use still works though. It probably depends whether your VPN exit IP has landed on a blacklist or not because of what other people did using it.
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Geralt_PostDemon: Only in German speaking countries. :-)

But the english word for Umlaut is umlaut and its correct plural is indeed umlauts. See here.
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MarkoH01: Simply decapitalizing a pure German word is not an actual translation - it's typical american lazyness ;)
So they take the German word - keep everything as it is and apply their own grammar. For every German this simply sounds terrible. Anyway - I am glad that you include them in your test ... nobody how you call them.
*cough* Wer im Glashaus sitzt... *cough* ;-)

Do you have any idea how many English words there are in the German language and how we mangle their plural compared to the English language? ;-)
Post edited April 29, 2025 by Geralt_PostDemon
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Geralt_PostDemon: Only in German speaking countries. :-)

But the english word for Umlaut is umlaut and its correct plural is indeed umlauts. See here.
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MarkoH01: Simply decapitalizing a pure German word is not an actual translation - it's typical american lazyness ;)
So they take the German word - keep everything as it is and apply their own grammar. For every German this simply sounds terrible. Anyway - I am glad that you include them in your test ... nobody how you call them.
Simply capitalising an existing English word isn't an actual translation, it's typical German laziness ;) "den Managern", that sounds awful! "チーズケーキ", that sounds ridiculous! C'mon man, that's just what happens with loan words!
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Geralt_PostDemon: So if you upvote my posts you'll get to see what the use of the PostDemon is
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g2222: Spam? Hate? Haikus?
If it were Haikus I would post them through my main account and if it were the other two I wouldn't have made it this obvious who the account belongs to. ;-)
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g2222: Spam? Hate? Haikus?
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Geralt_PostDemon: If it were Haikus I would post them through my main account and if it were the other two I wouldn't have made it this obvious who the account belongs to. ;-)
Why are you creating multiple accounts, and spamming... AGAIN?
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Geralt_PostDemon: If it were Haikus I would post them through my main account and if it were the other two I wouldn't have made it this obvious who the account belongs to. ;-)
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FrodoBaggins: Why are you creating multiple accounts, and spamming... AGAIN?
What are you talking about?

I have never spammed anything anywhere in my entire life and this is literally my second account (or in other words, my only alt account) here. GOG is my witness.

Please provide proof if you claim otherwise.
Linktest: Sang-Froid
Linktest with bold tags inside url tags: <span class="bold">Sang-Froid</span>

Linktest with bold tags surrounding url tags: Sang-Froid

Good to see it works the second way. :-)
Post edited May 01, 2025 by Geralt_of_Rivia
Speical characters: North & South

Special Characters inside url tags: North &amp; South

Damn, it's the url tag that messes the special characters up!

Trying html entities: North &amp; South
Post edited May 04, 2025 by Geralt_of_Rivia
Trying html a tags: [...]

Predictable didn't work since the forum seems to escape standard html.
Post edited May 04, 2025 by Geralt_of_Rivia
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Geralt_of_Rivia: Speical characters: North & South
Special Characters inside url tags: North &amp; South
Damn, it's the url tag that messes the special characters up!
Trying html entities: North &amp; South
Would a unicode replacement symbol work?
How about 'FULLWIDTH AMPERSAND' (U+FF06)?

North & South
Post edited May 05, 2025 by g2222
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Geralt_of_Rivia: Speical characters: North & South
Special Characters inside url tags: North &amp; South
Damn, it's the url tag that messes the special characters up!
Trying html entities: North &amp; South
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g2222: Would a unicode replacement symbol work?
How about 'FULLWIDTH AMPERSAND' (U+FF06)?

North & South
If it were just one problematic character I could easily replace that but sadly it's not just the ampersand. We also have the dash, the trademark or the registered sign. Some of which don't even have alternatives.

If there was a way to escape the string inside the url tags so that they won't get changed I'd really like to know.