What's up with this?

I was surfing in the Members list and I noticed this

written beneath about half of the names in the entire list

What's up with that?

It stands for "Never Before Sodomized Person"...

Kind of.

Actually, I have no idea, it's a very good question.

isnt that the caracter combination that usually comes up before an unknown or unreadable character? :toothygrin:

nbsp stands for "non-breaking space".

I'm presuming this is happening due to the conversion (yes, still more cobwebs), as some user title have been left blank, which is causing the software to replace them with this, but I see no way of resolving the issue aside from running a series of database queries to update all appropriate fields. I'll contact vBulletin support and see what they've got to say about it.

NBSP is the code for a space character, " ", commonly used in html where whitespace is not interpreted. If you see it, it means either the code is no longer being parsed correctly, or the code is wrong, like missing a character or used in the wrong spot.

In this case, it would actually seem vB has decided to escape the "&" character at the start to "&", so " " comes out literally as opposed to actually being interpreted as a non-breaking space. At a glance, I can't figure out why this is happening, looking at the file in question (memberlist.php), but hey, we paid for a licence that includes support, why not take full advantage of it? :toothygrin:

The issue should be fixed now. Any more problems, just shout.

The issue should be fixed now. Any more problems, just shout.

will do :P