Argonath RPG - A World of its own
Argonath RPG Community => Forum and site ideas and information => Topic started by: Daco on April 17, 2011, 11:51:11 am
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It gives me a database error whenever I type my sexy c or any other foreign character.
Please fix it/add it whatever. :)
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Supported. Would love to write that sexy c in my language too!
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Special characters used to be allowed here, but for some reason it was disallowed. Don't know why.
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Cee cedille, right?
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Pro for the ideea ( Supported )
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The reason is quite simple: those characters belong in the Unicode [# (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode)] encoding, while SMF uses the heavily outdated Latin-1 [# (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO-8859-1)] encoding, which is not advised for usage for these particular reasons. Perhaps a slight change in the application code could enable that the pages are served encoded as Unicode rather than Latin-1, something in line of:
<?php
header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8");
?>
And also setting a proper encoding in the HTML.
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So.. Gandalf?
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Unneeded. Write English.
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Unneeded. Write English.
Why was it disabled in the first place?
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Sometimes I am writing a big ass text containing names in Portuguese and when I click Reply I realise 80% of my text got lost away because of the special characters thing. :P
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Why was it disabled in the first place?
It isn't disabled, the SMF is by default impaired in handling Unicode characters.
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It's annoying because if you type any when writing big ass topics you lose the whole topic.
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No thanks, I don't want to see spaming nicknames all over my monitor with foreign letters.
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Most languages that use the latin alphabet can be written without any special characters anyway, although it might confuse some people.