It's all in a name Bing!!!!!
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| Author | Content |
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| lister Jun 04, 2009 11:03 AM EDT |
Hi, Ok I have to deal with Microsoft at work. But I am a Linux person so I had to share this!! Microsoft in there MSN web page has decided to call there search engine "Bing" ok I thought, till I looked down at my last fortune cookie. On the back I see "Bing" in chinese means disease!!! Ok so they finally admit there roll in the computing world LOL. I just wanted to share a chukkle with fellow Linux users. Lister |
| gus3 Jun 04, 2009 11:50 AM EDT |
Sure enough, for those who want to research it, here's the gucharmap information (HTML/XML adjusted for re-rendering):Quoting:病Too funny. And Gates/Ballmer/Mundy/etc want the world to believe it's the GPL that's a "cancer." |
| gus3 Jun 04, 2009 11:52 AM EDT |
Darn it, the character rendered properly during preview, but it conked when I submitted. Let's see if a direct XML entity entry works. The character is 病 . Okay, preview works. Does submission? EDIT: Nope... Grrrrr. |
| number6x Jun 04, 2009 12:07 PM EDT |
gus3 go to this sight: http://www.blogcrowds.com/resources/parse_html.php paste the xml in and hit the 'parse' button. It escapes special characters for pasting into html It might work for this |
| gus3 Jun 04, 2009 12:19 PM EDT |
Already did the escaping bit. Like how I typed "病", and got "病". OTOH, if I typed "病", it previewed as the Unicode character, but submission degenerated it to a question mark. |
| gus3 Jun 04, 2009 12:23 PM EDT |
First Zune, now this. Their generic names ("windows," "word") can only barely be enforced, while their made-up names turn into crap somewhere. Roy Schestowitz can only hope to do the damage to Microsoft that they're doing to themselves. |
| Sander_Marechal Jun 04, 2009 1:27 PM EDT |
@gus3: That escape problem is bug in the LXer preview that I already reported to Bob some time ago. You should type 病 and sumbit. Don't preview but submit immediately (and don't edit your post afterwards). That should work. Test: 病 |
| Sander_Marechal Jun 04, 2009 1:28 PM EDT |
Works for me! Edit: The problem is that when you edit or preview, the contents of the text area should be escaped an extra time. You can also do it manually, but everytime you edit or preview you need to re-escape the text again. |
| gus3 Jun 04, 2009 1:34 PM EDT |
Aha.... Thanks, Sander. They're fixed now. |
| techiem2 Jun 04, 2009 1:57 PM EDT |
So using Bing is like living in a diseased jail? |
| caitlyn Jun 04, 2009 2:27 PM EDT |
...and if you used a Zune we can assume the disease is an STD. |
| gus3 Jun 04, 2009 6:26 PM EDT |
Microsoft Zune-Bing: The new std. in STD's. |
| azerthoth Jun 04, 2009 6:26 PM EDT |
Sonically Transmitted Disease? |
| gus3 Jun 04, 2009 6:28 PM EDT |
Stupid TCP/IP Disaster. |
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