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Kim Jong-il dead. More

Kim Jong-il dead.

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  • You beat me. We'll see if my post or yours gets picked. It's a really big deal and worthy of coverage on /.
    • I'd like to see one that includes this [youtube.com]! :-)
      • I think he was quite cool guy. I wouldn't had minded to be in his position.

      • Frankly I'm hoping for some accommodation that lets the NK people step down their militaristic stance and accept aid. They've progressed from eating grass to eating bark, and some say cannibalism has commenced. Millions have died. I'm not OK with seeing people suffer so, but their prior stance was not something we could treat with, especially the nuclear proliferation thing.

        Darwin being what he is, I don't think the rest of us are ready to compete with the survivors of Kim Jong Il's regime if they go op

  • Vaclav Havel as well. No, I'm not adding accent marks on this shitty Windows keyboard in the shitty slashdot text entry fields.

    • Václav Havel... Was that so hard? No, I didn't use my keyboard to do that, as that wouldn't work (slashdot supports really only a limited amount of special charcaters) The secret lies in HTML Entities [w3schools.com]. Once you understand how it works, meaning you know that this was a "acute" accent, then you drop just the a before it and you've got the code. It thus becomes á. The mirrored accent is called "grave", the "umlaut is called "uml", the circumflex is called "circ", the tilde is called "til

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        by gmhowell ( 26755 )

        Václav Havel... Was that so hard?

        For someone who doesn't use stuff like that on a regular basis? Yup. Gonna remain ignorant and proud of it on this one.

        • The only place I use this is on slashdot. I'd rather not look ignorant. Especially, this is so easy. If it weren't easy (like having to remember numbers or inconsistent codes), I wouldn't bother either.
          • I had given up, since I was so used to them being filtered out. Nice to know they allow é, ô, à, €,
            • € is allowed now? Cool... I was used to use the HTML entity for that one too.
              • Well, you STILL have to use the HTML entity, I think - at least, that's how I entered it, same as the accents and the circumflex ...

                Then again, I'm so used to entering the entity codes anyway ...

                • The post I made was with Alt-Gr-E, which is € on my keyboard. So, oddly enough they do support direct entry now. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered making the post :-) I'm also used to typing the entities, that's why I never noticed they added direct support.

                  • I fixed my x-mod-map to give me the dead-character set on my now-deceased laptop (curse you HP!), and slashdot kept eating the alt-characters, so I just assumed that it was FINALLY accepting a more complete set of html entities.

                    Nice to know they've "gotten with the times". Of course, the problem with accepting html entities is that they are a gateway to some security problems, so you have to be cautious on what you accept, and where, because you never know what particular piece of software is going to hor

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