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After my previous two posts it occured to me that the grand new naming scheme of my URLs may be a bit stupid. Umlauts simply vanish in the file names – now that’s clever! How are people who don’t write in English supposed to use this comfortably, considering the widespread support of Unicode in all the geeky server parts involved in this? So I’m curious to see what file name I’ll get for this post’s completely non-ASCII file name. Will it just be the space transformed to a meaningful _, or the post id after all? By the time you read this, we’ll know.
I saw there was a new version of Opera out yesterday and decided to try it as people kept telling me it’s great, particularly ‘mouse gestures’. Eeeek. Those gestures don’t work on the Mac and the program plainly looks very 1990s. Add to that the many settings to make, the very strange way to adjust the plethora of toolbars and I’m quite close to puking on my keyboard. One nice thing prevented that, though: When rendering Zapfino, Opera, unlike all the other browsers uses all the nice ligatures the font provides.
Haven’t had breakfast, awaiting lunch already…
August 21, 2003, 10:38
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Comment by d.w.: ¶
That sounds like something worth reporting to SixApart as a bug.
August 21, 2003, 14:53
Comment by ssp: ¶
Don’t you think it’s a limitation due to the mainly Unicode-hostile nature of the tools used?
How would arbitrary Linux file systems handle Unicode filenames. They may to support it in theory, but have you ever seen it used in practice? What about backwards compatibility for old file systems? I hope that Perl supports unicode sufficiently well, but then still http seems to be bad at it. My impression so far is that entering http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2003/08/21/äöüß in a web browser’s location field will yield different requests to the web server, depending on how the browser encodes the URL.
Encoding madness, but I don’t think MT is to blame for this. Perhaps they could provide a more gracious fallback mechanism for umlauts and the like but that wouldn’t solve the general problem and definitely by a non KISS approach.
August 22, 2003, 11:58
Comment by Tim: ¶
The Chinese characters 原諸 mean “the original populace”, in case you’re wondering.
June 9, 2007, 20:42
