Pic of the Day: Mixed Characters
Post categories: blogs
| 11:04 UK time, Monday, 10 August 2009
As browndov has noticed you can now use pound signs, quotation marks and other "mixed characters" when making comments on BBC blogs.
The photo below was taken a couple of weeks ago as the technical team did the work to make this happen. It shows the "user story" relating to the change.
Although this is a small (but welcome) improvement, there was a significant amount of technical work involved. Credit should go to Tom and his team.
Nick Reynolds is editor, Social Media, Central Editorial Team, BBC Online, BBC FM&T
N.B. A version of this post was published on Friday but got lost due to a technical glitch. Apologies.
Comment number 1.
At 11:13 10th Aug 2009, Mo McRoberts wrote:“I, for one, welcome our new Unicode overlords†— Anonymous.
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Comment number 2.
At 11:30 10th Aug 2009, Briantist wrote:£€?
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Comment number 3.
At 11:33 10th Aug 2009, Briantist wrote:ßφχψω?⅓⅜⅞∆☺♠♣♥♦♪♫ ?
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Comment number 4.
At 16:53 10th Aug 2009, _Ewan_ wrote:Ë™uÊop Çpısdn sƃoʃq Çɥʇ ÉŸo soÉ¥Ê‡Ç ÇʃoÉ¥Ê Çɥʇ ƃuıuɹnʇ s,ʇI ˙ʇı Çʞıʃ ʇ,uop I
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Comment number 5.
At 18:06 10th Aug 2009, TV Licence fee payer against BBC censorship wrote:#4
Talk about standing the world on it's head...
Unless the blogs are going to be turned into competitions I can't see to use those Unicode charters!
The more usual £ € $ & ¿ ё ¥ ♀ ♂ charters etc. will be useful though.
Many thanks for everyone's hard work.
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Comment number 6.
At 00:23 12th Aug 2009, warden wrote:Yes, this is good! :-) No more little diamond-shaped question-marks to interpret in Firefox. I'm not sure about the "significant amount" of technical work -- although I do realise that there will have been testing and database backups and reconfigurations to do -- but the result is definitely an "At last" sigh. Great.
Now, could you reverse the change which means that I appear as "you" in the blogs, please? (Actually I haven't seen any official comment about that change; it just happened. All the comments I have seen have been negative, unfortunately)
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Comment number 7.
At 00:37 30th Aug 2009, Franky wrote:éà èP
Yet another abandoned blog?
Why pollute the sub ether?
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Comment number 8.
At 22:27 30th Aug 2009, Spartacus wrote:Any plans to offer this on the message boards? I could have really used this feature last night.
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Comment number 9.
At 08:04 2nd Sep 2009, wwdlu101 wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 07:31 30th Mar 2010, U14402580 wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 11.
At 05:27 12th May 2010, U14460911 wrote:All this user's posts have been removed.Why?
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