Pic of the Day: Mixed Characters
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| 11:04 UK time, Monday, 10 August 2009
As browndov has noticed you can now use pound signs, quotation marks and other "mixed characters" when making comments on BBC blogs.
The photo below was taken a couple of weeks ago as the technical team did the work to make this happen. It shows the "user story" relating to the change.
Although this is a small (but welcome) improvement, there was a significant amount of technical work involved. Credit should go to Tom and his team.
Nick Reynolds is editor, Social Media, Central Editorial Team, BBC Online, BBC FM&T
N.B. A version of this post was published on Friday but got lost due to a technical glitch. Apologies.
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“I, for one, welcome our new Unicode overlords” — Anonymous.
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£€?
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ßφχψω?⅓⅜⅞∆☺♠♣♥♦♪♫ ?
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˙uʍop ǝpısdn sƃoʃq ǝɥʇ ɟo soɥʇǝ ǝʃoɥʍ ǝɥʇ ƃuıuɹnʇ s,ʇI ˙ʇı ǝʞıʃ ʇ,uop I
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Talk about standing the world on it's head...
Unless the blogs are going to be turned into competitions I can't see to use those Unicode charters!
The more usual £ € $ & ¿ ё ¥ ♀ ♂ charters etc. will be useful though.
Many thanks for everyone's hard work.
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Yes, this is good! :-) No more little diamond-shaped question-marks to interpret in Firefox. I'm not sure about the "significant amount" of technical work -- although I do realise that there will have been testing and database backups and reconfigurations to do -- but the result is definitely an "At last" sigh. Great.
Now, could you reverse the change which means that I appear as "you" in the blogs, please? (Actually I haven't seen any official comment about that change; it just happened. All the comments I have seen have been negative, unfortunately)
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éàèP
Yet another abandoned blog?
Why pollute the sub ether?
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Any plans to offer this on the message boards? I could have really used this feature last night.
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