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I do that all the time. But that won't solve my problems.

Situation is chaotic. For example some october deals available a month ago are now inaccessible. I develop statistical programs for game analyse (yes, cheating too), but in this conditions is impossible to serious work.

The input string (left, entered by some user) and the output string (found on generated webpage, rigth): http://bridgebase.6f.sk/diacritic_error.jpg Something wrong happened to the input string. The input string is propably entered using Win1250 codepage. The entered characters are now converted to UTF-8 before saved to database. When the output page is generated, the string is read from the database, but it is assumed to be saved in Win1250 encoding(!). If player use diacritic in nick name or team name or tourney name, result is terrible.

Some hands are available from BBO hand records, but many hands no, only the message "Some tourneys not shown for security reasons". This is common with all players and many competitions. Why? Why hands from finished competitions, for example dated in october 2020, are not shown now? This is absurd.

EBU Orange book: 5 B 2 Alerting and announcing are compulsory; a player may not ask opponents not to alert or announce. Anyone know the exact same WBF and EBL rule? I worried that such rule do not exist, this is the competence of the national associations.

I mean in standard live tournaments (but including big tournamenst as Spingold or World Mind Sports Games), not online play.

Pls, it is possible that some player / players banned Alert at his table?

It is a pity. Lin file can be surely decoded, e.g. by means of older dotwxxx, but it needs a lot of time which I could use more effectively :).

Hello, could anyone advice me where I would be able to find complete description of lin files?

UTF-8 (instead inicially used Windows 1250) encoding solved the problem. Thank you very much. PS: extension change don't help.

I use Firefox 3.0.17 and Windows XP.

Hi, next url work in Firefox, but not in IE: example "bad lin file" no 1 or example "bad lin file" no 2. IE ended with "error parsing file". But next url work in Firefox and IE too: example "good lin file" no 1 and example from "good lin file" no 2. All target file is standard lin file from BBO match. Any sugestion, please?