Okay, I've discovered some more things. Specifically, that the board "eats" posts when you use characters outside of the ASCII encoding set. Which is bad, because the Internet runs on UTF-8
For those of you who aren't even certain about what a
"jay peg"
is, character encoding sets like ASCII and UTF-8 are just different ways of encoding all the characters that exist around the world. ASCII is extremely limited, using only 1 byte per character. It can only encode 128 different characters. There are certainly a lot more than that in the world, so Unicode was invented and with it came a whole bunch of different encoding schemes. The bottom line is that some characters (typically Chinese/Japanese) take up to 4 bytes (32 bits) to encode. But characters which can be encoded in ASCII don't need that much space, so there's no reason not to use a variable-length encoding scheme where some of the first "code point" hints at how many of the following bytes the character occupies. Now that I've slaughtered that explanation, you should know that Wikipedia has a good article on UTF-8 that you can read if you want a better description:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
