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2008-02-27 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Google's CAPTCHA busted in recent spammer tactics (bots create accounts)

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Posted by 3dc 2008-02-27 02:30|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Fred,

Could you put an appropriate text-encoding declaration in the head <head> section of the Rantburg page template? Apple Safari gives these pages the default encoding, which doesn't work well when people use curly-quotes.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-02-27 07:59|| 2008-02-27 07:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Followup:

When I set the page to UTF-8, the apostrophe in this headline worked, but the curly quotes two stories down don't.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-02-27 08:07|| 2008-02-27 08:07|| Front Page Top

#3 I have a software routine that does the coversion. I have to open the article, though.

Posted by Fred 2008-02-27 14:21|| 2008-02-27 14:21|| Front Page Top

#4 G-d must love standards. There are too damn many of them.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-02-27 21:40|| 2008-02-27 21:40|| Front Page Top

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