Allow special characters in forum

[Daco]

It gives me a database error whenever I type my sexy c or any other foreign character.

Please fix it/add it whatever.

[Skan]

Supported. Would love to write that sexy c in my language too!

[JDC]

Special characters used to be allowed here, but for some reason it was disallowed. Don't know why.

[Exclusive.]

Cee cedille, right?

[Alaska]

Pro for the ideea ( Supported )

[Patton]

The reason is quite simple: those characters belong in the Unicode [#] encoding, while SMF uses the heavily outdated Latin-1 [#] encoding, which is not advised for usage for these particular reasons.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:

Code: [Select]

<?php
    header("Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8");
?>
And also setting a proper encoding in the HTML.

[Daco]

So.. Gandalf?

[Gandalf]

Unneeded. Write English.

[Daco]

Unneeded. Write English.

Why was it disabled in the first place?

[JayL]

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

[Patton]

Why was it disabled in the first place?

It isn't disabled, the SMF is by default impaired in handling Unicode characters.

[(tr)Ollie]

It's annoying because if you type any when writing big ass topics you lose the whole topic.

[TheRock]

No thanks, I don't want to see spaming nicknames all over my monitor with foreign letters.

[JDC]

Most languages that use the latin alphabet can be written without any special characters anyway, although it might confuse some people.