...and current Captcha's already do it. :/ I have had times when I need to pound 'new Captcha' repeatedly, because it keeps spitting something with hanzi/kanji or something outside of FI-Latin-1 keyboard and I just can't be arsed to try and hunt down the alt-code for the letter...
Indeed! While my keyboard has things like å, ä and ö right there, it takes couple of keystrokes to produce stuff like á, è, ü, î... and then it gets tricky with wild stuff like ø, æ and þ.
Not to mention hanzi/kanji, katakana, hiragana etc.
Heck, I've seen even mathematical notation crop up!
Captchas are really infuriating when they misfire like that -- sometimes I am absolutely certain that I have gotten the characters right, but because of some fucked up encoding or such it rejects perfectly good letters (see: å, ä, ö -- those are pretty much umlauts everywhere but Scandic/Baltic areas, where they are actual letters on their own, with a corresponding sound unrelated to umlaut-ish noises; I do suspect that it is some kind of silly conflict between different encodings and browser being unable to decide which one should be used, ISO-8859-15 or UTF-8).
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Date: 2011-08-09 02:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-09 02:25 pm (UTC)...and current Captcha's already do it. :/ I have had times when I need to pound 'new Captcha' repeatedly, because it keeps spitting something with hanzi/kanji or something outside of FI-Latin-1 keyboard and I just can't be arsed to try and hunt down the alt-code for the letter...
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Date: 2011-08-09 02:28 pm (UTC)Oh, I know, it's just that casual elitism projects like these by "designers" frequently bug me.
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Date: 2011-08-09 08:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-10 10:12 pm (UTC)I'm (basically mildly) dyslexic, so I thought I just had trouble with those things because everythings all melty.
I fell SO MUCH BETTER.
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Date: 2011-08-11 03:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-11 08:55 am (UTC)Not to mention hanzi/kanji, katakana, hiragana etc.
Heck, I've seen even mathematical notation crop up!
Captchas are really infuriating when they misfire like that -- sometimes I am absolutely certain that I have gotten the characters right, but because of some fucked up encoding or such it rejects perfectly good letters (see: å, ä, ö -- those are pretty much umlauts everywhere but Scandic/Baltic areas, where they are actual letters on their own, with a corresponding sound unrelated to umlaut-ish noises; I do suspect that it is some kind of silly conflict between different encodings and browser being unable to decide which one should be used, ISO-8859-15 or UTF-8).