jwz
Since the strings "unicode" and "UTF" do not appear anywhere in the Mastodon documentation, can someone explain to me how to make this not throw error 400?
wget -dqO- https://mastodon.social/api/v1/statuses --header 'Authorization: Bearer XXXXX' --post-data='status=Hello+I+am+an+%E6lig.'
jwz
@mjgardner Were you trying to be either helpful or entertaining, because neither succeeded
Mark Gardner
@jwz The API docs are crap and the only source of truth is the source code?
Mark Gardner
@jwz I was trying to give the obvious answer that I know you know already, because I've seen you tilt against other shoddy insular software projects the same way
jwz
@mjgardner Once again I am imploring you not to waste my or anyone's time by "telling [them] what they know already".
jwz
@mjgardner OMG no it was not. *plonk*
Mark Gardner
@jwz I'm sorry. I understand now that your original question was rhetorical.
jwz
Fuckin' perl...
$caption = HTML::Entities::decode_entities ($caption);
+ # If this is still a Latin1 string, upgrade it to wide chars.
+ if (! utf8::is_utf8($caption)) {
+ utf8::encode ($caption);
+ utf8::decode($caption);
+ }
Daniel Marks
@jwz Every language is evolving to be Javascript. It's like the carcinization of computer languages into the form of a crab. You might as well surrended and become a crab now.
jwz
@profdc9 Honestly I would have no problem with writing random command-line shell scripts in JS. The problem is that at some point I would want to *use a library* and the people who do such things are barking lunatics who would force me to install a rootkit wearing the bleeding skinsuit of a package manager.
Daniel Marks
@jwz Yes, there's not many trustable tools anymore. I write embedded code and my own libraries, but then who should trust me?
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