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by 90minuteAPI 4536 days ago
About 2 weeks I tried to file a bug with our backend guys about 4-byte characters wreaking havoc on our API.

My example broke the bug tracker's (bugzilla) comment system as well. I chuckled.

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Yeah. We've noticed, to our own amusement, that Jira (we're on an older version) can't handle non-ASCII. Makes entering tickets involving other languages fun.
I assume Bugzilla broke due to being backed by MySQL. Bugzilla itself is written in Perl so should have no problem.
At my last job I checked in a test case for our astral character handling. And broke the build server.