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Mixtel90 Guru  Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
In the UK it's quite common to use a temp of around 13C as a night setback level. It's quite possible to drop to less than 10C indoors overnight in winter unless there's some heating in an older house. Most people set the daytime temp to a fair bit more than 13C during the day though. :) (Fond memories of my pre-centrally-heated UK childhood, using a coin heated in my hand to melt a hole in the ice on the *inside* of my bedroom window in a morning... And that was considered normal after a cold night.) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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lew247 Guru Joined: 23/12/2015 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1702 |
Going back to my original question for a minute.. I've fixed the problem with both split aircon units I have. They needed a damn good cleaning. I took the covers off both until I was at bare metal evaporator coils and gave them a really good cleaning with high pressure air, then used a paintbrush and then air again on the fan The amount of crud that came out of them shocked me. I now know after doing a lot of research they are meant to be cleaned at least once a year, ideally using the foam or similar cleaner then sprayed with water till spotless. Here in the UK very few people have aircon in their houses so it's not common knowldge about cleaning, and they didn't tell me that they needed an annual clean when I bought them or when they were installed. Here in the UK I like mine set to around 18C in Summer and not far off that in the winter. I have aircon in the bedroom 365 days a year on 18C, could't sleep properly without it now. It was the best investment I made. What I have to try and find now is one of those plastic bags you put over the Split unit when cleaning to collect the water and crud, very hard to get hold of here, I've only found one place selling them and it's around UK40 |
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| lew247 Guru Joined: 23/12/2015 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1702 |
And this forum with it's you can't use any character over ascii 127 is really starting to P**S me off and I suspect quite a few others as well. I couldnt even put the UK pound symbol |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
I'm afraid it uses ASCII characters, lew, and there's no UKP symbol in standard ASCII. I know it's a pain... :( Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| lew247 Guru Joined: 23/12/2015 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1702 |
it's not just the pound syumbol I've had to take screenshots and post the image of what I want to post quite a few times because I can't figure out which character in the post the forum doesn't like I've seen others do this also |
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| lizby Guru Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3378 |
Other likely culprits: Angled double or single quotes, em-dash (best to replace with "--"), en-dash (replace with "-"). PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4044 |
Just run the text through a small program (maybe in "DOS" MMBasic) which strips out all the allowed (i.e. ASCII) chars and whatever is left is the bad stuff. (Particularly trivial in Linux - wouldn't even need a new program - so I hope not hard in Windows.) John |
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TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6283 |
This is an extract from MMEdit, used to sanitize code. lt = LEN(txt$) ltsh = lt -2 FOR Qpos=1 TO lt ch$=MID$(txt$,Qpos,1) 'print asc(ch$) chval = ASC(ch$) IF chval = 145 OR chval = 146 THEN ch$=CHR$(39) ' single quote IF chval = 147 OR chval = 148 THEN ch$=CHR$(34) ' double quote IF chval = 150 OR chval = 151 THEN ch$=CHR$(45) ' EN dash to hyphen IF chval = 181 THEN ch$ = "u" ' micro symbol IF chval = 163 THEN ch$ = "UKP" ' UK pound symbol IF chval = 226 AND Qpos < ltsh THEN 'print asc(ch$), asc(mid$(txt$,Qpos+1,1)),asc(mid$(txt$,Qpos+2,1)) IF MID$(txt$,Qpos+1,1)=CHR$(128) THEN Qpos=Qpos+2 ch$=MID$(txt$,Qpos,1) IF ch$=CHR$(152) OR ch$=CHR$(153) THEN ch$=CHR$(39)' single quote IF ch$=CHR$(157) OR ch$=CHR$(156) THEN ch$=CHR$(34)' double quote END IF END IF IF chval = 128 THEN ch$ = "euro" ' EURO symbol (normally!) cleantxt$=cleantxt$+ch$ NEXT Qpos The currency ones are a new addition and I will add more as that pop up to bite me. The euro symbol can be troublesome as it tends to wander about a bit. I'll put together something that you can put on the desktop and drag text onto do the same. Jim VK7JH MMedit |
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| lew247 Guru Joined: 23/12/2015 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1702 |
Why though? This is the only forum that does this! I'm a member of many forums and none of the others have this issue. Edited 2021-06-08 16:21 by lew247 |
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| TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6283 |
The code I posted is used to cleanup code that gets pasted from PDFs and Word documents. I just thought it could solve your problem... VK7JH MMedit |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
From Gizmo in January: I suppose that still applies. :) The UKP has never fitted into the ASCII code below 127. It's always "patched in" as a character above that. All positions from 0-127 are allocated. If you start playing with unicode then more things become possible, but it's not straightforward to do. Edited 2021-06-08 16:58 by Mixtel90 Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4044 |
Because its provider (who pays for it all and develops it for free too) had (I think) grief with a previous version of the forum and re-did it this way. If it bothers you enough I guess you leave - or maybe offer him money to change it. John |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
What's more, messing about with the code for the forum takes time that could be better spent writing & supporting the software that puts bread on his table. Personally, I'm happy to accept the limitations and be very grateful that it's here. Thanks, Gizmo. :) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4044 |
I'm happy, too :) Yep, thanks Glenn! John |
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| Davo99 Guru Joined: 03/06/2019 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1584 |
Got up this morning and due to the sub zero overnight temp, the place had fallen to 14 despite the heater going. Bugger that for a Joke! 17 is the bare minimum I ever want the place and that's no good either. Anything under 20 is cold and uncomfortable for a home IMHO. I'm tight but having a warm, comfortable home in winter is one thing I will pay for... although I'll sure try to minimise the cost but not by having the place like an ice box. |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
[Lancashire accent] Eh, lad, tha' don't know tha's born! When I were a lad there was eight on us i' one room, sittin' round a candle. If it got cowd we lit it! [/Lancashire accent] Apologies if that doesn't translate into Australian very well. :) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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thwill Guru Joined: 16/09/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4311 |
Gizmo should write a script that deletes the forum if it at least once conversation every 3 months doesn't reference The Four Yorkshiremen Sketch ... though your Yorkshiremen seem to have decamped across the border  Best wishes, Tom MMBasic for Linux, Game*Mite, CMM2 Welcome Tape, Creaky old text adventures |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
LOL! I nicked it. T'other side o' the Pennines is nowt but grime and dark satanic mills anyway. ;) The dialect as I wrote it isn't that far off the old West Lancs one, actually. I remember my grandparents sounding pretty much like that. :) Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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