I figured since the threads about the English *chans on the English *chans' own fora usually create drama, flamewars and trolling since the respective community usually gets defensive about "its own site", this could be a good place to talk about them, even though the board is losely associated with WAKAchan.
Don't let that bother you, though. This board and the idea for it have been older than WAKAchan. It won't really matter where you are coming from or if you even want to talk about an English *chan (4chan, iichan, 5chan, fchan, 0chan, etc.) at all or rather about a Japanese, Chinese or Taiwanese *chan, imageboard or whatever. Rational arguments above usernames and community cliques!
This thread should just serve the use to make a few remarks about a particular imageboard site / community, how they relate to each other, what differences, opportunities, etc. there could be, both from a technical standpoint as well as from a "sociological" standpoint, if you want to talk about that. And of course, there's more...
Please try to refrain from trolling this thread too much. Also, please don't pay any trolls herein too much attention, i.e. don't feed them. Let's keep this civil, everyone!
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No, I want the field to be appear as absolutely empty, not with a space in it.
> Base64-encode it?
Then you'd have to convert UTF-8 encoding to real unicode codepoints in the script, and that's a pain in the ass too. The real trick is that you have to use the %x1234 URL encodings for unicode characters in the cookie strings, but that might mean you have to write your own cookie handling code, AND you have to convert character sets appropriately, especially if the board is not using UTF-8. In PHP it probably depends on which version you're running.
> What if we don't use Windoze?
Linux has some sort of alt-keypad trick too, I forget the details. It's much the same as in Windows, though. Or just cut-and-paste!
> No, I want the field to be appear as absolutely empty, not with a space in it.
There's a few zero-width unicode characters you might use, I think... I remember coda playing with that on some test installation of Kareha. It was some sort of RIGHT-->LEFT switching character.
Posting with a U+202D Left-To-Right Override as my name, and sage.
U+ is just the standard unicode notation. Best way is to open up charmap and use the go to character function. Or you can try using ‭ or ‭, most unicode-aware boards should support that.
Incidentially, the reason those last two work is a really annoying mis-design of HTTP - there's no way to tell the difference between a user typing in ‭, or the web browser converting a unicode character to that entity when sending the content of a form. I'm having to use entity tricks to get these strings to display at all - I'm writing them as ‭.