character encoding gotcha

[trochee]

I know this is petty, pointing and laughing like this, but <nelson>ha ha</nelson>.

Even big companies can't handle teh funnay accents, not with the powah of javascript.

and might I add "eff you LJ for making the scrapbook picture posting WYSIWYG javascript hell".


ETA: Not only did they get the word "café" wrong (not so hard, see?), they got double-burned by some edit tool trying to be fancy: that &#8212; code is supposed to be an em-dash.  hah.

Comments

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

And of course, it's the MAGYAR that breaks Teh Webpage. Heh.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Yes, but is your mom getting here on time ?

And why dont you have flashy adds on your post ?

:p

[trochee.livejournal.com]

so far, still on time.

Adblock?

[seaya.livejournal.com]

That's odd, when I have accessed that page, it has not done that.

[esk.livejournal.com]

oh, god. i'm laughing with them, not at them, i swear. *looks with despair upon two-week i18n project deadline*

[bwb-archive.livejournal.com]

This was funny the first 100 times I had to fix it :)

I spend all day getting paid to fix stuff like this! :)

It's what we call a content banana.