phil ringnalda

Although someone pointed it out to me back in December, it wasn’t until 4am this morning (when the best, but most painful ideas seem to strike) that I realized why my BlogThis extension wasn’t playing well with anything other than English: I was using the wrong function to escape the title and text before sticking it in the URI. escape() might sound right, and be what almost everyone else doing a similar bookmarklet does, but it’s completely wrong: to stick things in a URI, you want encodeURIComponent(). So, BlogThis 0.3: There’s More Than 26 Letters. You may find some oddness with stuff like curly quotes if the first blog in your list o’ blogs isn’t published in UTF-8: that’s Blogger’s fault for not recoding properly, and your fault for not publishing in the one true encoding.