I agree with those statements as well. I also agree with the person who replied years ago and pointed out that this wouldn't fix anything since node text is stored in the DB in Latin-1 and CODE tags don't have any reserved characters for escaping things so you still wouldn't be able to get non-Latin-1 characters to work in code tags, even if you modified the "form submit" to make it possible to submit utf-81 text w/ non-Latin-1 characters inside of a CODE block (and even if the database wasn't using Latin-1, then you'd still have to change the page generation in order to display non-Latin-1 characters in CODE blocks correctly).

1 Actually it is already possible to submit utf-8 to PerlMonks and some browsers already do this. It is just that some browsers choose (correctly, at this time) not to (and that PerlMonks probably still doesn't detect when that happens, in part because it would have to guess because the HTTP protocol neglected to specify a header requirement for stating the encoding used in a POST).

- tye        

In reply to Re^2: Unicode in code (pointless) by tye
in thread Unicode in code by John M. Dlugosz

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