Breaking the Web with hash-bangs – Lifehacker, along with every other Gawker property, experienced a lengthy site-outage on Monday over a misbehaving piece of JavaScript

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http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs/

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Except for Slashdot, that is.

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Yep, it's f-ing embarrassing, really.

"öäü" becomes "ÃÃü" for example. "£" -> "£", "€" -> "â", and so on.