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...

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

Same problem here with Firefox 3.5.5...

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

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

It's broken allright.

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

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

Maybe a test?

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.

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