This has come up on the smallpicture-user mail list.

I can give you all the info you need on this one, but you're probably not going to like it. ;-(

In order for Fargo to communicate with WordPress, we have to go through a gateway.

The software on this gateway is old. It does not understand unicode. So as long as you stick to 8-bit characters, you're cool. But when you use characters outside the 8-bit set, you can be pretty sure it will get mangled in transit.

I can't do anything about this. However if someone else wants to create a gateway without this problem, I can make it so that Fargo can talk with that gateway. The person doing this would have to be a reasonably skilled server developer, and have a server to run the gateway on.

If someone is interested in doing this they should contact me off-list, or if you prefer, post a comment here.

I had been tweaking the index template on dave.smallpict.com.

I posted an RFC on the smallpicture-web list, but there were no comments.

So I'm going ahead and making the switch. If all goes well the home page of this site will now be using the new index template.

I'm going to start publishing worknotes over here. Will take care of bringing across the existing worknotes shortly.

Update: The worknotes have been brought across.