#4143 Non-ASCII characters don't work on Slashdot

[Matt Blissett]

Example: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=574607&cid=23682361

The HTTP headers and the META element say Slashdot is iso-8859-1. £, ä and ² should work. If possible, it would be good if € was translated to &euro, “ to ", etc.

[Chris Nandor]

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Clarification: the headers only say what the content PRODUCED by Slashdot is, not what characters we ACCEPT in forms. So having Latin-1 in the headers does NOT imply that you can post Latin-1 characters in messages.

That said, yeah, we need to fix a few things.

[Not ME]

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You *can* post Latin-1 characters to Slashdot. I just did.
It's just that your buggy code fscks it up.
C'm'on, how long has Perl been able to handle UTF-8?

[Matt Blissett]

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I've noticed now: the HTML entity &sterling; / &sterling; doesn't work any more, it just disappears. But & / & still works. The numeric reference doesn't work either.

[Alex Grönholm]

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Is there a good reason to use any other character set than utf-8?
To mattblissett: the euro sign (€) is not included in the latin-1 character set! You need either latin-9 or (preferably) utf-8 for that.