No, the board is completely encoding‐agnostic. Hence why everybody’s browser detects it differently. The database is ostensibly cp1252, but that really makes no difference in what can be stored or how it gets displayed (case in point). The safe thing on Jul is to use HTML character references for everything. Using win‐1252 in posts will only make the eventual Unicode transition harder (mostly due to MySQL being stupid and silently truncating fields for no reason). And it still messes up posts when the browser autodetects differently. So please, use HTML references everywhere, and don’t switch your browser to win‐1252.
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