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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)↺
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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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 4, Informative) by mattie_p on Sunday February 16 2014, @10:24PM
If I can break something without even trying, surely I'll be able to do it when I do try
(Score: 1) by StupendousMan on Monday February 17 2014, @02:03AM
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(Score: 1) by StupendousMan on Monday February 17 2014, @02:05AM
So, if I try using "Plain old text", the code below cannot be posted.
If I try "HTML formatted", it can't be posted.
If I try "code", it IS posted, but the results -- shown in post above this one -- are bad: one can't see the characters properly.
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(Score: 1) by StupendousMan on Monday February 17 2014, @02:09AM
Rats. Can't get Japanese kana or Greek letters.
(Score: 1) by omoc on Monday February 17 2014, @06:28AM
According to the preview, Chinese characters don't work either I think
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(Score: 1) by yellowantphil on Thursday February 20 2014, @02:53AM
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
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
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.