Neil Harris said:
Nicolas Weeger wrote:
>>what's wrong with "imagesq" though... ;)
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>As pronunced in french, "q" becomes "cul", which means
"ass", or
>"porn". Thus "images de cul" or "images de q" => porn
pics.
Hence the caption LHOOQ on Marcel Duchamp's defaced Mona Lisa.
http://www.studiolo.org/Mona/MONA11.htm
Wow.
Just wow. Ok, here's a suggestion, somewhere between humorous and
completely serious: when sending an edit form, the user interface
should send a hidden "canary" field containing various safe-for-work
words that will be mutilated by idiotic censorware such as this: words
like
"Middlesex", "Cockfosters" and "Scunthorpe" come to mind.
Then, if the
"canary" field is returned in a mutilated form (for example, "Middle
fosters Sthorpe") when the edit is submitted, we know that the rest of
the edit is potentially dubious. We could then refuse the edit,
alerting the user that they are in a text-mangling environment, and
that they should edit from somewhere else. The uses of "canary" field
could also potentially be extended to check that the browser correctly
handles various other technical issues, such as not mangling character
sets.
So simple it could just work! :)
I'm still boggled by the suggestion that this censorware nonsense may have
infected languages other than American.