[tlug] OT: IE6, UTF-8 and titular stupidity

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Darren Cook writes:

 > No, wait, some Japanese is okay. "サーチ" fails. Kanji works. "ネット
 > ワーク" works. Eh? "サチ" fails. "サ" works. What are these Microsoft
 > programmers smoking??

Autobogotification.

 > "チ" fails. "チチ" works. "チチチ" fails.

I wonder if the UTF-8 strings that fail are maybe valid Shit JIS?

This is only one of the many reasons why spelling it with an F is WRONG!