Bleh. Apparently not caring what you do on other sites or even requiring any personal information isn't good enough for the state of Confusion^WCalifornia, so we have a shiny, new, temporary Privacy Policy posted on every page and linked at the top of the nav bar.
If you feel like prettying the language, layout, or whatever up before I get around to it, feel free to do so and submit a pull request.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 23 2020, @04:40PM (5 children)
I skim the headlines on the crapper in the morning. Sometimes they have something we missed that's worth subbing. Plus it's fun to laugh at their lack of UTF-8 support. I mean, I even offered to do that shit for them back years ago when they said they were going to finally implement it. For free. Hell, it's not even difficult if you've done it once before.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 23 2020, @08:23PM (1 child)
They claim now that they don't have UTF-8 support on purpose. Depending on which staff member responds, it has something to do with censorship in China, avoiding combining character spam (like this [ycombinator.com]) or to maximize discussion by forcing people to use English. Either way, it definitely sounds like bullshit, since even the staff post mojibake from forgetting to change quotation marks and it isn't that hard to handle Unicode while stripping or catching most of the things they don't want.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 24 2020, @12:48AM
Yeah, it's a minor pain and a bit of reading but it's not in any way difficult. Make a list of the crap you don't want being used by Unicode code points, get the hex and decimal HTML entities for each, and get any named HTML entities for each. After you have those it doesn't take more than a few minutes to code up.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday February 24 2020, @01:36AM (2 children)
Plus it's fun to laugh at their lack of UTF-8 support.
That is their saving grace. No emojis! Twenty years of archives ain't too shabby either...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 24 2020, @01:50AM (1 child)
You make a compelling argument but having your code monkeys and editors look like retards every time someone uses a type of quotation mark or dash not found in ASCII isn't a good tradeoff IMO.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday February 24 2020, @02:00AM
Yeah, they should reject the submission than contains any of that junk and tell the guy to sanitize his input.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..