Comments on: Amazon botches unicode gift note http://www.squarefree.com/2005/12/30/amazon-botches-unicode-gift-note/ Jesse Ruderman on Firefox, security, and more Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:15:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Patrick Hall http://www.squarefree.com/2005/12/30/amazon-botches-unicode-gift-note/#comment-2093 Patrick Hall Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:35:58 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/?p=300#comment-2093 Hmm, weird, that Hindi search returns an error now. Maybe they're reading your weblog. ☺ Hmm, weird, that Hindi search returns an error now.

Maybe they’re reading your weblog. ☺

]]> By: harry http://www.squarefree.com/2005/12/30/amazon-botches-unicode-gift-note/#comment-2077 harry Sat, 18 Feb 2006 08:44:24 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/?p=300#comment-2077 Hi Jesse, It might sound wierd to you but, can I know how you manage to use this template for your blog, its not available on www.blogger.com, if you could tell me to get template for my own blog, thanks harry Hi Jesse,

It might sound wierd to you but, can I know how you manage to use this template for your blog, its not available on http://www.blogger.com, if you could tell me to get template for my own blog, thanks harry

]]> By: Patrick Hall http://www.squarefree.com/2005/12/30/amazon-botches-unicode-gift-note/#comment-1941 Patrick Hall Wed, 04 Jan 2006 03:08:16 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/?p=300#comment-1941 Amazon seems to have bad Unicode support all around. It doesn't seem to be possible to search for non Latin-script texts at all. For instance, here's a search for the Hindi word for "India" -- surely, they have such a book in their index? <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/002-0189507-9492855?url=index%3Dblended&field-keywords=%26%232349%3B%26%232366%3B%26%232352%3B%26%232340%3B&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go" rel="nofollow">भारत</a> And no, I don't know Hindi -- I just found the word by going to en.wikipedia.org for "India" and following the link to the Hindi article on the same topic. Amazon seems to have bad Unicode support all around.

It doesn’t seem to be possible to search for non Latin-script texts at all. For instance, here’s a search for the Hindi word for “India” — surely, they have such a book in their index?

भारत

And no, I don’t know Hindi — I just found the word by going to en.wikipedia.org for “India” and following the link to the Hindi article on the same topic.

]]> By: Matt http://www.squarefree.com/2005/12/30/amazon-botches-unicode-gift-note/#comment-1939 Matt Sun, 01 Jan 2006 07:36:47 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/?p=300#comment-1939 Hey, maybe she appreciated the geekiness? If my girlfriend could recognise the ♥ symbol by its Unicode number, holy damn... Hey, maybe she appreciated the geekiness? If my girlfriend could recognise the ♥ symbol by its Unicode number, holy damn…

]]> By: Jesse Ruderman http://www.squarefree.com/2005/12/30/amazon-botches-unicode-gift-note/#comment-1938 Jesse Ruderman Fri, 30 Dec 2005 20:37:18 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/?p=300#comment-1938 I entered the characters as unicode by pasting them from <a href="http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/unicode-decoder/character-identifier" rel="nofollow">Hixie's Character Finder</a>. I entered the characters as unicode by pasting them from Hixie’s Character Finder.

]]> By: Neil http://www.squarefree.com/2005/12/30/amazon-botches-unicode-gift-note/#comment-1937 Neil Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:03:05 +0000 http://www.squarefree.com/?p=300#comment-1937 I agree: it's almost impossible to fix ealready-written ad-hoc HTML-escaping code, unless you do it right in the first place. It took me two web programming efforts involving endless anti-XSS and character fixup issues to realise that the only waty to do things was for every single byte of data to or from the Web or your database to go through _correct_ and _rigorously tested_ escaping and unescaping bottleneck code. I agree: it’s almost impossible to fix ealready-written ad-hoc HTML-escaping code, unless you do it right in the first place. It took me two web programming efforts involving endless anti-XSS and character fixup issues to realise that the only waty to do things was for every single byte of data to or from the Web or your database to go through _correct_ and _rigorously tested_ escaping and unescaping bottleneck code.

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