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Foreign characters on TPT forums

  • lefouduroi     31st Mar 2014 Member 0 Permalink

    I'm sure that many would agree with me in saying that we should be able to type in characters of different languages on the
    TPT forum. I know there are many users on TPT who speak and can type in other characters like those, but are unable to on TPT.



    For example, In a conversation with one of my fellow TPT user friends, @Schneumer, I tried to type in chinese to show that I was able to. Unforunately, this is what appeared:



    ?????



    I am not the only one that this has appeared for. Schneumer and others have the same thing happening to them. It would be very convienient for this to be possible.

    Edited once by lefouduroi. Last: 31st Mar 2014
  • jacob1     31st Mar 2014 Developer 3 Permalink
    http://tpt.io/.6759 rule one says that "If you don't speak english, use google translate so that others can read what you say". This is probably one of the reasons you can't use unicode, the other being it can be used for spam / really strange text.

    There is still a way to use foreign characters, you just have to use a site like this: http://www.unicodetools.com/unicode/convert-to-html.php .
  • lefouduroi     31st Mar 2014 Member 0 Permalink
    @jacob1 (View Post)

    so It's encoded in HTML code...like this?:

    我说中文


    EDIT: Awesome! so it does work!


    I understand why people wouldn't want unicode then... Oh well, but thanks for the link though!
    Edited once by lefouduroi. Last: 31st Mar 2014
  • Box-Poorsoft     31st Mar 2014 Banned 0 Permalink
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  • boxmein     31st Mar 2014 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    Another thing, why would passwords strip out odd characters? They're not stored as plain text obviously, no transfer encoding problems either should arise, even if the developers were lazy. It's a really bad and uncontrollable thing to do.
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