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Unicode support?

Florin CriÅŸanFlorin CriÅŸan
edited November 2009 in Site Support
How about fixing the Unicode support for the forum?

In the rest of the site, my name appears properly, Cri-U+015F-an, only here the UTF-8 is just dumped as ANSI, Cri-U+005C-U+0178-an.

For that matter, also fix the shipping system: either add proper Unicode support or strip the diacriticals from the letters.

Attached is a picture of what I got.

Not all of us live in the US, you know :)

Comments

  • Florin CriÅŸanFlorin CriÅŸan
    edited November 2009
    P.S. Kudos to UPS for being able to decode the address.
  • GinnyNGinnyN
    edited November 2009
    Thanks godness my name has no accents or something...
  • ezuliezuli
    edited November 2009
    I always replace Ö with O and Ä with A on internet shopping etc. That is the way people would read it anyway.

    Almost same as if someone demands that everyone should speak Esperanto: It is universal, but only few would understand. No, we stay in english.
  • Florin CriÅŸanFlorin CriÅŸan
    edited November 2009
    ezuli wrote: »
    I always replace Ö with O and Ä with A on internet shopping etc. That is the way people would read it anyway.

    Almost same as if someone demands that everyone should speak Esperanto: It is universal, but only few would understand. No, we stay in english.
    Maybe I should start writing my name like this: Flourine Krischaan, so there can be no doubts about it. :D

    Then again, English orthography is not really consistent, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_%28orthography%29

    I'm sorry, but being a programmer myself, I feel there is no good reason for asciification in 2009; only sloppiness, ignorance, and laziness. And maybe legacy code ;)
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