
My day has come!!!
[object Object]
Yes?
What? My mother was a saint!
I � Unicode!
I like this very much! It implies that the person expressing this knows exactly how they feel about Unicode. It’s just us, the readers (or some other link in the chain), who have/ has the wrong encoding.
Unless they work for Microsoft. Teams has been showing � instead of ä for the caller’s name in the popup when someone calls for several weeks now. It didn’t use to do that before. I don’t think they care anymore.
I don’t think it’s even “they” any more.
Allow me to introduce you to my favorite Unicode character, the zero width space
that sounds awesome! (there’s 10k zero width spaces between the quotes ->‘’.)

thats a 29kb comment right there
I’ll be damned. The crazy son of a bitch did it!
Hey that’s a neat tool. Link?
Checks out:


Odd, on the Connect app it shows a bunch of spaces, but not 10k of them.
What kind of devil came up with this?
Allow me to make one thing perfectly clear: If you insert those symbols into my perfectly working website… only to mess with me and inadvertently give me vietnam-style flashbacks to the days when I had to deal with incredibly badly formed and misencoded CSV-files on the daily…
Then I will find you and break into your home to replace every second sock with one of the same color and pattern but slightly different make, size or material and you will always wonder why you can’t find any exactly fitting pairs of socks anymore.
I willingly embraced mismatched socks years ago. I just pretend it’s a fashion statement. Come at me bro.
I always buy identical socks, cannot mismatch if they are all the same.
I started buying all the same sock type, but some might have a little gray or a little brown in the variation, and I dont care, I mix/match.
If one gets a hole its just one of many and is tossed.
I buy colorful, patterned socks of all kinds. Mostly they stay together, but if not, it’s fun to pick new partners.
Don’t let the world change you, this is wonderful
▞☒ę
Not always, but most times, yeah.
Pretty sure that’s illegal here.
To the op of the screenshot meme, calm down satan
Former dev here, can confirm on occasion it does.
Depends on if it breaks the form and they get called. Actually if it gets through they might rightfully question their sanitation coding.
Calm down satan 😅
Ok calm down there Satan. Leave some chaos for the rest of us 😅
Actual monster
I remember feeling extra powerful when Moonshell for the DS shipped with UTF-8 and UTF-16 support because the developer was japenese and wanted to make sure any language would work.
Usually only happened when a French person copied and pasted their text directly from a Word document… dang weird spaces and accented characters… drove my boss mad when I told him it was because it French, and not a glitch.
Still had to work around it… text counters in textboxes had to account for accented characters, which took two bytes instead of one.
“I only have 2000 letters!” … 2000 including 200 accent characters made it 2200 characters, not 2000.
“I only have 2000 letters!” … 2000 including 200 accent characters made it 2200 characters, not 2000.
Or, you could count it in Unicode characters, and not in whatever bizarro charset you’re using over there. Then “À” is one character, just as it’s supposed to be.
The problem typically comes from improper conversion between charsets. Like Windows-1252 to Unicode, or something equally horrible.
Not if the maximum is due to the database being configured to have a maximum space of 2000 bytes for that field.
Ah, well, bytes ≠ characters, but yes, that can certainly be an issue.
I was basically calculating in Javavscript then in PHP for validation before I sent it to Zoho.
The DB also was fine. It was honestly just PHP and Javascript. It’s all good now though!
Easy. Just use utf-32 and make the text field a maximum of 500 letters. That will be a maximum of 2000 bytes, doesn’t matter if the user is french or Chinese.
XD ahahah.
I remember one day long ago when Notepad++ was the real shit, I was using the vertical selection feature and noticed that the selection was shorter on lines that had accented characters. I thought: “huh, accented characters count as two? What would happen if the selection ended in one? Can I select half a character?” no I could not and I had to restart my computer after trying.
I loved Notepad++.
Started in DOS with Edit, regular notepad, got introduced to UltraEdit, then found NP++.
… lol. Sounds like you tried splitting an atom.















