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ASCII and the Editor
Mysterious encoding gums up the works.
Tuesday, 2008-03-25 | Programming
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This post, while entered manually with ye olde MySQL monitor, is the test case for odd ASCII formatting.
We ran into a certain problem while working on http://curseofiga.com that was easy to diagnose and is proving difficult to fix (with conventional means--extreme hacks have yet to be attempted). When cutting and pasting text from a browser, mysterious encoding marks managed to get into the textbox and thus into the SQL query and thus caused the query to fail.
As I work on solving this problem here, I am going to attempt to cut and paste weird stuff (e.g. accent aigus, umlauts, Windows-style carriage returns) into into the textbox and see if I can't develop a method for handling it.
