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09 November 2007
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Firefox 3 won’t open SSL pages with self-signed certificates. This is a good idea, as well as being incredibly annoying.
http://blog.johnath.com/index.php/2007/10/11/todo-break-i...
Is this UTF-16 in a twitter?
Paul Mison pointed me at this very odd twitter. It’s from a phone, so it seems unlikely that is was supposed to look like this. It contains ‘@s@t@r@a@ @e’ - that was supposed to be ‘Straße’? So this is probably a Windows Mobile phone falling back to UTF-16 / UCS-2 to send non-ascii. Every other phone I’ve ever see falls back to UTF-8 to do this.
Don’t you just love windows?
Updated: this one worked..
Twitter / Ian Forrester: @A@t@ @o@r@a@n@g@e@b@u@r@g@…
09 November 2007
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Awesome windows mobile failure mode? Looks like UTF16.
