Kalan schreef:
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 01:37, Ilmari Karonen nospam@vyznev.net wrote:
Trying to edit through such a proxy would, in particular, turn all apostrophes in the page text into "'" or even "\'". We used to get such edits with some regularity. Having a backslash in the edit token prevents editing via such proxies, since they will mangle it in the same way. As a nice bonus, it also happens to prevent some widespread spam- and vandalbots from using those proxies to hide their trails.
Could there be also some Unicode, such as a long dash (—; replaced to "-" by some proxies) and some characters from IPA (say, ɾ̃ɚ)?
You mean in the edit token? There currently aren't, it's just a hexadecimal number (0-9 and a-f) with + at the end.
I sometimes see users that corrupt such characters, and finding and reverting them is a pain.
I'm personally wary of abusing the edit token too much for this purpose. \ and + are there because clients mangling those characters screw up big time, whereas Unicode/IPA damage is fairly limited (unless you're editing in a language that uses Unicode characters extensively, such as German).
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)