Your books & newly edited series name fields are not displaying Chinese and Japanese properly

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Your books & newly edited series name fields are not displaying Chinese and Japanese properly

1HsuBattery
Edited: Apr 21, 2025, 12:34 pm

Various fields (title, author, publication) on the "Your books" page are not displaying Chinese and Japanese characters correctly, as shown in the screenshot.
Something went wrong between 9:00 PM and 11:00 PM (UTC+8) 2025/04/21. (Or between 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM (UTC+0))


Editing these fields has a high probability of causing garbled characters, which will then be saved.
And editing series name has the same issue.

2HsuBattery
Edited: Apr 21, 2025, 6:07 pm

Searching with a keyword that generates garbled characters in "Your Library" will cause an HTTP ERROR 500.
Searching with a keyword that generates garbled characters in a site-wide search will display a popup window saying SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input.
Writing a message here with characters that generates garbled characters causes the message cannot be previewed.

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3bnielsen
Apr 22, 2025, 3:25 am

>2 HsuBattery: Probably same bug as https://www.librarything.com/topic/370281

Very annoying, so I hope this is fixed soon.

4kristilabrie
Apr 22, 2025, 8:40 am

>1 HsuBattery: Thanks for the report. Can you point me to some series where you're seeing this so I can use them as examples? Thanks.

5kristilabrie
Edited: Apr 22, 2025, 9:59 am

I think we'll need to roll back a change...

ETA: I think we need Lucy for this one, which means we'll have to wait until tomorrow. Thanks for your patience in the meantime!

7knerd.knitter
Apr 22, 2025, 2:16 pm

We think we've got this fixed, but let us know.

8HsuBattery
Apr 22, 2025, 8:57 pm

I think it is fixed.
Thank you very much.