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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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Truckers welcome.
(Score: 2, Informative) by stormwyrm on Monday February 17 2014, @04:20PM
Doesn't look like it does. Been trying to type Japanese text but it doesn't seem to work. Japanese text in the subject gets mangled into XML entities.
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 1) by stormwyrm on Monday February 17 2014, @11:32PM
Seems to be still just as broken as it was on the old site. I get the same garbage when I type something like this: Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre. That's supposed to be a quote attributed to Cardinal Richelieu, and is my main rebuttal to people who say they have nothing to hide. It works if I force encoding to ISO-8859-1 as I had to before (see my sig for how it should look).
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2014, @01:07AM