Check Your Encoding (FFS!)
Tue, 07/22/2008 - 06:44 — jh
- Slashdot's Garbled Unicode
It's simple; put some special characters into the very first post and verify it. Re-check after database rollbacks. Amazingly easy, isn't it?
Despite that some websites completely fail in that area. The most popular among them is probably Slashdot. The eye-catcher on the right shows the text as entered in the text area and how garbled it's spit out at the end. It doesn't have to be this way.
We aren't living in the 90ies anymore. This isn't a cutting the edge issue. It really isn't.
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