Everybody seems to have one of these. Could this be the next OHamburgefonstiv? � The next The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog maybe? � The next Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet even? Anyway; this is mine.
So what happend?
Well, I've been a big fan of Unicode, and utf-8 specifically. I've been serving pages with that encoding for some time now.
However, Movable Type (the cms that co-powers this site) didn't play nicely with my beloved characters: it was molesting such beauty as ?
and ?
into ugly numeric entities as
and ☮
before storing them in the database ?. Browsers were rendering them the same, so it might seem trivial, but it's really not: some (default) files like the rss feed would more or less choke on it, and trackbacks to external sites left ugliness all around. Also, it's a pain to manage, and that's not a good property of a cms.☯
I had been keeping up with this for quite a while (I'm pretty sure I've tried to fix it before, and failed); but tonight, when I was editing my Kees van Drongelen page and the header text 0 comments so far.??? ???? ???
ACJ
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