[OSM-dev] broken utf8 in minute changeset 200907140650

[Steve Hosgood]

Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>   
>> * Potlatch will enter whatever raw binary string the user 
>> supplies into the database that the main API would reject 
>> as an invalid request, hence the corrupt data
>>     
>
> Sort of.
>
> From a client point of view, the bug you filed is that Linux Flash Player
> has long been broken beyond belief and doesn't permit non-ASCII characters
> to be entered into a textfield. (See http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-40
> .)
>
>   

That's odd. I'm really sure that back in Potlatch 0.9x days (just before 
1.0 came out) it was quite capable of taking letters like ô and ŷ 
entered with the X-window 'compose' key. I live in Wales and need those 
characters (and others) for streetnames all the time. But since 1.0 it's 
been broken, and it's a PITA.

I just didn't get around to reporting it (until now).


Steve



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