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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:13 am    Post subject: Unicode (international characters) Support Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

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.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:17 am    Post subject: Re: Unicode (international characters) Support Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

It's intentionally blocked. Something to do with hackers.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:19 am    Post subject: Re: Unicode (international characters) Support Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:40 am    Post subject: Re: Unicode (international characters) Support Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

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.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:41 am    Post subject: Re: Unicode (international characters) Support Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

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). Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 6:19 pm    Post subject: Re: Unicode (international characters) Support Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

We can't really support unicode until we move to PHP v6+
see : http://www.php.net/unicode

not that it matters since you can translate the forums:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.peakoil.com%2Ffortopic41275.html&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=en&tl=ar
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:27 pm    Post subject: Re: Unicode (international characters) Support Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

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. Razz
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