Cedille breaks stuff

March 1, 2006 11:15 AM

The page for the français tag (which uses a ç) doesn't work right. In particular, it doesn't list the post that uses it.
posted by smackfu to Bugs at 11:15 AM (7 comments total)

Ceci n'est pas une commentaire.
posted by cortex at 11:45 AM on March 1, 2006

Ça ira!
posted by languagehat at 1:46 PM on March 1, 2006

Weird, the crazy c gets encoded into two characters instead of one, but if I remove one, Apache throws a forbidden flag blocking what I would guess it thinks is a utf URL hack of some sort.

I can't seem to encode it or decode it easily, but I'll keep trying stuff to see if I can get it working.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 2:28 PM on March 1, 2006

"crazy c"?!?
posted by Francophone at 5:31 PM on March 1, 2006

Your URL decoding routine doesn't seem to handle multibyte character sequences very well. Browsers send the URL as UTF-8 because your pages are UTF-8, yet when you're decoding the URL you're treating the data as if it were just plain ASCII.

(in case you hadn't figured it out yet)
posted by sbutler at 6:42 PM on March 1, 2006

c cedille
posted by arcticwoman at 6:43 PM on March 1, 2006

You could also just use ç (& # 2 3 1 ;) or Ç (& # 1 9 9 ;) instead.
posted by ducksauce at 9:34 AM on March 3, 2006