Comments on: Super-fast DummyPants Addressbarlet for del.icio.us http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/08/19/dummypants It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha By: Aristotle Pagaltzis http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/08/19/dummypants/comment-page-1#comment-1790 Aristotle Pagaltzis Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=676#comment-1790 <p>del.icio.us understands UTF-8 (which is exactly what the message says, after all), and the characters you remove are expressed in Unicode codepoints.</p> <p>The disconnect seems to happen when the page you're on is in an encoding other than UTF-8, in which case Firefox apparently escapes characters using their byte values from that encoding in <code>encodeURIComponent</code>. I have no idea why, or exactly where this problem happens; the JS docs say the function should always use the UTF-8 representation for the byte values.</p> del.icio.us understands UTF-8 (which is exactly what the message says, after all), and the characters you remove are expressed in Unicode codepoints.

The disconnect seems to happen when the page you’re on is in an encoding other than UTF-8, in which case Firefox apparently escapes characters using their byte values from that encoding in encodeURIComponent. I have no idea why, or exactly where this problem happens; the JS docs say the function should always use the UTF-8 representation for the byte values.

]]> By: John Resig http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/08/19/dummypants/comment-page-1#comment-1791 John Resig Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=676#comment-1791 <p>A very smart improvement of the original - I like it! I'll see if I can't include a link to it, before I forget.</p> A very smart improvement of the original – I like it! I’ll see if I can’t include a link to it, before I forget.

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