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Funny thing is, on Solidot, GP anon would be rated 5, and jbolden would be rated -1.
The common sentiment on Chinese social media would also corroborate those ratings.

A little comparing your own underbelly with other's best faces, plus some cultural ignorance, and you get comedy like this on both sides of the ocean.

Here http://solidot.org/ ?

well, here is China's version of /. http://solidot.org/

It's too bad it's not a bug. Slashdot is working as designed. We don't need those characters.

Closed-minded, arrogant and incorrect, good work!

I end up typing £ (£) and € (€) here regularly. I see broken/missing characters regularly, typically copy and pasted curly quotes, long dashes and currency symbols.

Slashcode supports unicode, for proof see Solidot (Chinese Slashdot).

Slashcode is using Unicode fine on Solidot.org (A Chinese /.).

This is old news... I read http://internet.solidot.org/ instead ;) (Damn they even copied slashdot?!? qzhttp "created" by tencent = apache for sure...)

thanks for the info. actually, there is a chinese version of slashdot, called http://solidot.org/ Solidot,or Qi-Ke(strange vistor) website..
the news on it is not up-to-date like here..and commentors also are fewer than here. that's why it not well known to many of my folks.

And also linked from www.digbuzz.com is a site named "Solidot", which looks like a total rip-off of Slashdot: solidot.org.

I'm gonna pass on those patches at least for now...

I posted this comment successfully... on Safari and Mac Firefox its text displays as "hgfedcba". On MSIE 6 the comment doesn't display at all, and on MSIE 7 it displays as "abcdefgh".

The reason is that the first character in the comment is the Unicode character for "right-to-left embedding." Some browsers respect it, some don't. We would strip it if we ever allowed unicode generally on Slashdot, because it causes too much confusion (you could literally write a comment that read one way on firefox and another way on MSIE, bringing chaos and confusion to moderation, aka, it makes trolling easier).

To make things worse, I was able to crash Solidot 100% repeatably by appending an "i" to that comment text. Not sure why.

There's all kinds of wacky characters in the unicode standard, and we hold to the belief that it's unacceptable to try to screen them out... maybe at some point we'll get around to figuring out some ranges we can allow but it's still not a high priority and, as is obvious, it's quite possible to do it wrong.

Besides, if you want to use Japanese characters, just go to slashdot.jp

I prefer:

http://solidot.org/

(Maybe this is Chinese? I can't tell.)

Speaking of which, there's also a Chinese group trying to fake slashdot: http://www.slashdot.cn which redirects to: http://solidot.org/