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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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(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @05:46AM
When writing letters and symbols outside of the normal keyboard mapping, what is the most often used method? Is it with AltGr key (like AltGr-M for µ), or with a Compose key, a keycombo to enter unicode char number (ctrl-shift-u ?), or simply cut&paste from a character table application?
A⃣ B⃣ C⃣
There will probably be use of lots of unicode in discussions about languages etc later on. I might add that I think UTF-16 would be preferable.
Let me sing a little song to celebrate this event: ♩♫♬♯♪♩♫♬♯♩♪♫♬♯♪
I'm not sure it is my web browsers fault or not, but it didn't work if I wrote the characters here directly, only if I entered them html encoded ( ♩♫♬♯♪♩♫ð…Ÿâ™¬â™¯â™ªð…¡ð…žâ™©â™«ð…Ÿâ™ ¬â™¯â™ªð…¡ð…ž)
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