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jonathanlennox
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Apr-21-14, 10:07 PM (EDT) |
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6. "RE: Forum back in service... kind of."
In response to message #5
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>Ampersand entities are ASCII in the storage; they just get
>converted to accented letters or Greek or whatever by the browser.
>Are the more recent threads perhaps using the raw characters instead?
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>(It is equally possible that I am seeing the ghosts of such bugs that
>I and/or my SO have had to fix in other software. It is depressingly
>easy to screw up non-ASCII handling even in quite recent code.) Hm, yes, that seems plausible... if you've got one API that's counting UTF-8 characters -- and another one that's counting bytes -- and the code is using these counts to index into a flat text file, and expecting them to agree...that seems very much like something that could go sideways quite easily. It also seems like the sort of thing where a system upgrade could "helpfully" change APIs' behaviors in the scripting language.
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