Who does one have to stab with a crystal blade to get an apostrophe?

Many thread have been made. Our liege even said he would look into it back in R8 (possibly even R7). Yet still, I cannot create a character with an apostrophe.

I just don't feel like it really is my avatar without an ' in his name.

 

I believe that will require some very detail oriented coding for security purposes. As much as you may want an apostrophe, I'd equally like hackers to not have access to the database.

 

I think you need a Royal Warrant to get one...that's what the silly cat near the rift told me...

 

Sir, your education in the arts of technomagic needs brushing up.

 

If I told you who, would you stab him?

 

ANY time someone posts anything remotely direct about information security, someone responds with insistence that the person knows nothing! Of course, in this case you're correct. I'm not a web application or web database developer. I don't know exactly what's needed. But I do know that data validation is required, that the code (often) has to accurately account for things like apostrophe's and other special characters. If that's considered trivial by some, I leave that to you to decide.

I will say this however. Because I did not want to get into a debate (especially one I couldn't win) but I still wanted to help out, I tried very hard not to ruffle anyone's feathers with being too detailed in my initial response. I'm curious though now, are you saying that an apostrophe is no big deal to code? Or are you saying an apostrophe in the wrong place is not one of the many ways to ensure someone performs an SQL injection attack against your servers? Because that's all I was saying so if I'm wrong, please point out where.

 

Basically all programming / scripting languages out there now that can interface with both users and a database support one or more methods which automagically escape special characters or convert to friendly entities. There are well known and much, much better ways to prevent injection attacks than just disallowing characters.

 

bump. we need apostrophes!

 

For great justice!

 

We have apostrophes! GREAT VICTORY!


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