Unicode?
I'm wondering what the longterm plans are for Unicode support on |.
From my limited experimentation with posting so far, it seems any attempt to post a comment which Unicode characters directly is rejected. (As are comments containing the ampersand character, so encoding sequences are also verboten.) I've heard that there is some potential for abuse, which is why 'some other news aggregation sites' forbid non-ASCII posts, but there are some potential benefits, such as better punctuation (e.g. em-dashes, 'proper' open/close quotation marks), and in reproducing the some non-English words and names of people. There could also be benefits if somebody is trying to reproduce mathematical or physical formulae as well.
There are almost certainly other features which are higher priority, but I'd be interested to know if there are any plans to support character sets outside of ASCII/basic European?
From my limited experimentation with posting so far, it seems any attempt to post a comment which Unicode characters directly is rejected. (As are comments containing the ampersand character, so encoding sequences are also verboten.) I've heard that there is some potential for abuse, which is why 'some other news aggregation sites' forbid non-ASCII posts, but there are some potential benefits, such as better punctuation (e.g. em-dashes, 'proper' open/close quotation marks), and in reproducing the some non-English words and names of people. There could also be benefits if somebody is trying to reproduce mathematical or physical formulae as well.
There are almost certainly other features which are higher priority, but I'd be interested to know if there are any plans to support character sets outside of ASCII/basic European?