Org Issues and Improvements

[Tellos Athenaios]

There is an odd issue with markup that the forum generates for forum listings (forumdisplay.php?$forum_id-name/page$page) when it contains moved threads. For some reason the forum software injects ETX (0x3) characters in the markup for the thread summary and tooltip. This suggests a more serious bug with the forum software because ETX is a non-printable ASCII control character dating back to the olden-days of teletypes and it is not supposed to surface in normal data.

To illustrate what I mean, the forum markup for a moved thread looks like (where ETX is the single character 0x3 rather than the string "ETX"):

<div class="threadinfo" title="ETX">
  <!-- stuff -->
  <div class="threadmeta">
     <p class="threaddesc">ETX</p>
     <!-- stuff -->
  </div>
</div>

For example if you go to https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/forum...prune=-1&pp=30
And break out your hexeditor, use it to search for the char sequence of "Tactic" you will find: