JDMvW Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 <p>When I try to type or paste, for example, the Cyrillic name of a Soviet lens, the message is rejected.<br> Is this true across the board, and why? I always thought it "added" value to have the original names for many terms, whether Cyrillic or Asian characters where 'foreign' searches might reveal them.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User_6502147 Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 <p>Could it have something to do with security of the site (constant spamming pings, etc) ? Just a wild guess.</p> <p>Les</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 <p>Recall that a few months ago there were a lot of Korean and other spams? I believe the admins added the limitations to Latin characters to block those spams.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Weishaupt Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 <p>Many months ago I tried a test post using a lot of different languages. Many were Asian, Cyrillic, Arabic or Slavic. The post was rejected.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hector Javkin Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 <p>I think it's a bad idea to forbid other alphabets. In other words . . .</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Laur Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 <p>Unicode support creates all sorts of problems on web-based forums like this. I've seen moderators/admins even on very technically sophisticated platforms pull the plug on unicode character sets after lots of creative misadventures.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike dixon Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 It's a trade-off. The number of users inconvenienced by not being able to post non-Latin type is much lower than the number of users inconvenienced by hundreds of spam messages filling the forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted July 23, 2016 Author Share Posted July 23, 2016 <p><strong>one can see from the recent infestations on p.net, even roman characters can be abused.</strong><br> <strong>Many of the problems of P.net could be solved if no alphabetic characters or ideographic symbols were permitted at all.<br /></strong></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJHingel Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 <p>For French this seems still to be accepted.<br> éé èè çç àà êâô<br> Or Scandinavian languages:<br> øø åå ää ææ</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donald_miller5 Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 I noticed that when I tried but managed to get away with Latin letters. Then someone followed up and reposted my words with Cyrillic letters so there is a way to do it. I will have to dig his name up or.maybe he will see it. I think it was James Danis or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donald_miller5 Posted July 24, 2016 Share Posted July 24, 2016 <p>It is a bad idea to limit use of characters. Hope we are not reduced to this</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gungajim Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 <p>Must have something to do with DT candidacy :-)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmueller Posted August 7, 2016 Share Posted August 7, 2016 <blockquote> <p>Unicode support creates all sorts of problems on web-based forums like this. I've seen moderators/admins even on very technically sophisticated platforms pull the plug on unicode character sets after lots of creative misadventures.<br> <br> It's a trade-off. The number of users inconvenienced by not being able to post non-Latin type is much lower than the number of users inconvenienced by hundreds of spam messages filling the forums.<br> </p> </blockquote> <p>While factually correct, there is another trade-off here, between a mindset that will deprive the community, and one that will enrich it, and that is ultimately a bigger problem in my opinion.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landrum Kelly Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 <blockquote> <p>¿Qué pasa? </p> <p>Feliz año nuevo.</p> </blockquote> <p>Just checking to see what happens with Spanish diacritical marks and letters. . . .</p> <p>--Lannie</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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