https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40124

--- Comment #15 from Brad Jorsch <[email protected]> 2012-12-03 20:53:19 
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(In reply to comment #13)
> Ugh, to me the idea with removing the characters altogether doesn't sound 
> good.

You misunderstood. The proposal isn't to remove the characters, it's to return
a warning or error and not save the submitted value at all if the characters
are included.

> JavaScript doesn't even have Base64 encoding functions. (Yes, some browsers
> provide window.btoa / window.atob, but it's a non-standard extension.) Unless
> we have them as a RL module (which we don't as far as I know), this is going 
> to
> encourage some ugly half-assed reimplementations and homemade escaping
> solutions.

jQuery doesn't have base64 built in? Disappointing.

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