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Seriously. Ignore this post. I'm only testing things.

For the nerds: I'm making sure my fixes to some character encoding issues work as well on the live site as they do in testing. The two setups are close enough to identical for me to reasonably assume that anything that works locally will work on the live site, but encoding problems in PHP and MySQL are probably the area least likely to Just Work. Hence the test.

The plus, from your standpoint, is that my Atom feed will be much less brittle than it used to be. It used to break quite easily whenever I was incautious in pasting quotes from other sites. The usual was when someone used fancy quote characters (“” instead of ""). Then boom. At best this resulted in some garbling when you read the post. At worst it stopped it from showing up in Firefox's live bookmarks.

Now that I've gone and put those fancy quotes in this post, I guess I'll find out pretty quickly if they're still liable to break things.

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