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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 StupendousMan on Monday February 17 2014, @02:03AM

    by StupendousMan (103) on Monday February 17 2014, @02:03AM (#368)
    Try to break it?  Use funny characters?

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  • (Score: 1) by StupendousMan on Monday February 17 2014, @02:05AM

    by StupendousMan (103) on Monday February 17 2014, @02:05AM (#369)
    My post below has several lines of Japanese and Greek letters, pasted into the "Comment" box.

    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.

    bã‚ã‘ã‚“

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    • (Score: 1) by StupendousMan on Monday February 17 2014, @02:09AM

      by StupendousMan (103) on Monday February 17 2014, @02:09AM (#371)
      And the post above, I tried "Extrans", but that didn't work, either.

      Rats. Can't get Japanese kana or Greek letters.
      • (Score: 1) by omoc on Monday February 17 2014, @06:28AM

        by omoc (39) on Monday February 17 2014, @06:28AM (#453)

        According to the preview, Chinese characters don't work either I think

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