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Announcing UTF-8 Support on SoylentNews

posted by NCommander on Sunday February 16 2014, @10:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the ¡sᴉɥʇ-sǝlpuɐɥ-ʍou-ǝʇᴉs-ǝɥʇ dept.
So, after dealing with a bit of monkeying with the database, I'm pleased to announce that Soylent should (in theory) have support for UTF-8 starting immediately. Now obviously this isn't well tested, so this is your chance to break the site in two, consider the comments below to be "open season" so to speak. I know the comment preview has some issues with UTF-8 (and it only works at all in Plain Text or HTML modes)

For purposes of breakage, anything that breaks the site layout/Reply To/Parent/Moderate buttons, or breaks any comments beyond itself is considered bad. We need to stop those. If you can break it (which shouldn't be hard), you earn a cookie, and I'll get you in the CREDITS file as something awesome.

For comments that are just plain unreadable, moderation will take care of them, and that isn't considered a bug. So go forth and BREAK my minions! ()}:o)↺
 
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  • (Score: 1) by yellowantphil on Thursday February 20 2014, @02:53AM

    by yellowantphil (2125) on Thursday February 20 2014, @02:53AM (#3096) Homepage

    I don’t see a comment button other than “reply to this.†Hmm… I wasn’t willing to use unicode in my comment on another page, because the preview looked wrong, but maybe this comment will look fine after I submit it.

  • (Score: 2) by mattie_p on Thursday February 20 2014, @03:33AM

    by mattie_p (13) on Thursday February 20 2014, @03:33AM (#3129) Journal

    Hitting "reply" to the main story is equivalent to "post." But you're welcome to test out almost anything in this thread so we can work the bugs out.

    • (Score: 1) by yellowantphil on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:19AM

      by yellowantphil (2125) on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:19AM (#3156) Homepage

      Ah yes, there is the reply button. Thanks.

      I wonder how someone else managed to post in braille, and I can’t even get quote marks to work. I’ll try HTML.