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trochee ([personal profile] trochee) wrote2006-05-31 10:01 am

character encoding gotcha

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 "cafĂ©" 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.

[identity profile] faithhopetricks.livejournal.com 2006-05-31 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
And of course, it's the MAGYAR that breaks Teh Webpage. Heh.

[identity profile] boobirdsfly.livejournal.com 2006-05-31 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, but is your mom getting here on time ?

And why dont you have flashy adds on your post ?

:p

[identity profile] trochee.livejournal.com 2006-05-31 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
so far, still on time.

Adblock?

[identity profile] seaya.livejournal.com 2006-05-31 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
That's odd, when I have accessed that page, it has not done that.

[identity profile] esk.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
oh, god. i'm laughing with them, not at them, i swear. *looks with despair upon two-week i18n project deadline*

[identity profile] bwb-archive.livejournal.com 2006-06-01 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
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.