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jabo 

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Interesting, I did not know Apple allows donations as in-app purchases.
interpol_p
Yeah that seems odd — I thought it was disallowed too. Perhaps you get something trivial?

I've seen a few other devs get around it by offering something trivial for the purchase (e.g., a golden version of the app logo).

grrowl
Pedometer++[1] has donations too — "Generous Tip of $1.29", "Massive Tip of $2.49", and "Amazing Tip of $6.49" (AU pricing).

According to the guidelines[2], "Apps that include the ability to make donations to recognized charitable organizations must be free", and "The collection of charitable donations must be done via a web site in Safari or an SMS". Nothing about donations not to a recognised organisation, so I'm guessing the rule is to avoid sticky laws regarding Apple's 30% non-donation slice.

[1]: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/pedometer++/id712286167?mt=8

[2]: https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guid...

hcarvalhoalves
I can already see site moderators going crazy trying to maintain comments/forums legible.
jvdh
I do really hope that we can prevent the knee-jerk reaction of just preventing all of UTF-8...

Having said that, what is the best way to prevent this in comments without blocking UTF-8?

egypturnash
"Hi. I run this place. Can you please not do the Zalgo thing all the time? It drives me crazy. Thanks!"

Or in a forum maybe even "Hi. If you want to speak Zalgo, please take it to the Zalgo subforum in the future. Thanks!"

Or look for people piling up a bunch of diacritics on a single letter and throw an error message if you'd rather have the machine do it.

smsm42
I imagine cutting off "weird unicode" won't be too hard. For English, it's super-easy - just leave ASCII with letters, numbers, punctuation, etc., cut the rest. For languages with more complex characters it will require some whitelisting I guess, and smart code to disallow stacking diacritics, etc. Sounds quite possible, I wouldn't be surprised if such libraries already existed.
riquito
And then you'll not be able to quote foreign text. Ban the user if he misbehave, not the language
JoshTriplett
Nice; Unicode is ت awesome!

Anyone know of a good web-based equivalent?

malka
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Zaheer
There's already many apps like this - I see ascii comments all the time on Instagram. What makes this one unique?
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troymc
Don't miss the customer reviews.
sheetjs
On a side note, many javascript libraries and browsers don't handle astral characters in utf-8 encoded text (such as sushi 🍣).

http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-unicode

lloeki
> astral characters

I was looking for the relationship between sushi and astral sign characters when I realised reading your link that, while I knew unicode was split in planes, I didn't know about most of them being astral, which deeply satisfied the roleplaying nerd in me.

runnr_az
This is pretty silly... good job making a thing! (And I hope to G-d my QA department doesn't find this stuff and start jamming it into my app.)