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anagami
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 Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:13 am Post subject: Unicode (international characters) Support |
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Hi,
why this website those NOT support Unicode?! It's one of the most widely used standards of character encoding for a reason! it supports basically all imagined languages! why not use utf-8 or other unicode standard?!
This is just a software upgrade (it should have being supported in software years ago) and will be a welcome improvement for non-english speaking countries (specially for local forums). I get errors whenever I use a single "strange character" like accents.
Thanks 
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Leanan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:17 am Post subject: Re: Unicode (international characters) Support |
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It's intentionally blocked. Something to do with hackers.
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DomusAlbion
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:19 am Post subject: Re: Unicode (international characters) Support |
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If the underlying code was not designed and coded to support UNICODE it is a major effort to convert from the current ANSI support. I suspect that this is the case with the public domain code bulletin board code being used by Peak Oil.
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Aaron
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:40 am Post subject: Re: Unicode (international characters) Support |
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It is a security thing as well, but mainly it's because this is an english language forum. We don't have native language speakers who can moderate other languages.
Sorry.
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anagami
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:41 am Post subject: Re: Unicode (international characters) Support |
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For security?! Why unicode is less secure than ascii? that's bullshi_! I'm studying computing and networking and have never heard such nonsense.
Update: it doesn't matter... I guess. But this makes peakoil.com a 90's website (which is about a century in computing). 
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anagami
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject: Re: Unicode (international characters) Support |
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It's a migration away then...
It's not about translating; I'm fine with English.
But having a "blacklist of characters" that I must NEVER type on peakoil.com because I will get an error is getting tedious. 
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