fôxglove (fg) wrote in lj_dev,
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utf-8 bug

I'm sure there are more pressing bugs, but here's a note all the same.:

Livejournal stores and transmits malformed illegal utf-8 characters such as the following: � (U+DBA0, a UTF-16 surrogate). This breaks clients and services that expect utf-8 replies, especially on xml which is usually more strict than html.
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