character set/encoding and its specification Options

[Peter Evans]

In a sandbox message, I posted some Japanese. I'll try it again:

いま日本語で書いております。

Chances are that you, dear reader, can't read Japanese. All the same, you're probably more or less aware of what Japanese looks like: a mixture of complex, angular characters (like Chinese, and indeed from Japanese), and simpler, cursive forms. I wonder if you see that mixture in the line above. If you don't, there could be any of various meanings, e.g. that your computer doesn't have a Japanese font installed. But if you do see it (as I do), that too is odd as this page reads:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

and of course those characters are definitely not within ISO 8859-1.

[Peter Evans]

I should have looked at the source, sorry. (I plead exhaustion: a losing battle with a combination of installation of an unfamiliar distro, and gradual conviction that my hardware's on the blink. A new motherboard awaits installation.)

What's more alarming is that people can edit others' messages. As long as this superpower is limited to moderators, it's fine. I hasten to reassure y'all that I don't see edit buttons on your messages. (Or indeed on my own, which is a bit irritating as I'd like to correct my sleepy "like Chinese, and indeed from Japanese" to "like Chinese, and indeed from Chinese".)

[John Pozadzides]

I should have looked at the source, sorry. (I plead exhaustion: a losing battle with a combination of installation of an unfamiliar distro, and gradual conviction that my hardware's on the blink. A new motherboard awaits installation.)

What's more alarming is that people can edit others' messages. As long as this superpower is limited to moderators, it's fine. I hasten to reassure y'all that I don't see edit buttons on your messages. (Or indeed on my own, which is a bit irritating as I'd like to correct my sleepy "like Chinese, and indeed from Japanese" to "like Chinese, and indeed from Chinese".)

Peter,

Only moderators can edit everyone's messages. You however can edit your own for up to 1 hour after posting. We set it up that way so that revisionism wouldn't take place. If you feel that time needs to be a little longer we can change it, but we'd need to have a little discussion on the matter.

John

[Peter Evans]

. . . I hasten to reassure y'all that I don't see edit buttons on your messages. (Or indeed on my own, which is a bit irritating as I'd like to correct my sleepy "like Chinese, and indeed from Japanese" to "like Chinese, and indeed from Chinese".)

Only moderators can edit everyone's messages. You however can edit your own for up to 1 hour after posting. We set it up that way so that revisionism wouldn't take place. If you feel that time needs to be a little longer we can change it, but we'd need to have a little discussion on the matter. . . .

Point taken. One hour seems reasonable.