Unicode Preferences Election
 

i just received an email asking me to vote on my favourite special characters.

upon logging in on http://maemo.org/vote/, i am asked to provide my email and a token from the mail.
on the next page i am supposed to choose the characters, but the fields are empty.

a quick debug shows that at line 167 there's an unterminated string constant.

this election should probably have been tested before sending out the mails asking people to vote...

Re: Unicode Preferences Election
 

Yeah, happens at least with Opera 10.20 not sure about other browsers.
Managed to vote still as you can always modify the source :)

Re: Unicode Preferences Election
 

Same problem here with Firefox 3.5.5...

Re: Unicode Preferences Election
 

you mean you saved the .htm page and corrected the javascript error? or does opera support on-the-fly editing nowadays? (haven't had it installed for years...)

regardless, i don't think any of this should be expected by the users, even if it's a vote about special characters :)

Re: Unicode Preferences Election
 

same in iron 4.0.227 (chromium), firefox 3.5.5, midori-git 20091118.

It's broken allright. ;)

Re: Unicode Preferences Election
 

HMhm, and what does this poll has to do with Unicode? And could we have some context about why we vote? Preferred in which way?

Thanks :)

Re: Unicode Preferences Election
 

This has to be a joke. - Why would somebody want me to confess I prefer "(" over ")"?

Re: Unicode Preferences Election
 

Maybe a test? :)

Re: Unicode Preferences Election
 

Hi,

Thanks to Ferenc we have patched this up temporarily - you no longer see a backslash, you see the text "backslash".

How did this happen? Easy - in the database we inserted '\\', '£' and '€' as options for the election. MySQL escaped \\ to \, which gets inserted in the javascript that constructs the candidate list, resulting in option4='\', instead of '\\'. We will get it fixed properly tomorrow by replacing € with €, and £ with £ and \\ replaced with \\\\. In the meantime, text it is.

Cheers,
Dave.

Re: Unicode Preferences Election
 

what about "^". I find ^ pretty important. Both to do ^^ as well as Exponentiation.