Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

I found no place for bug reports, so I'll abuse this thread instead.

I tried to write 'cliché' (cliche with acute accent) and it appeared garbled in the forum. Some problem with unicode?

I have found out you can use escape characters here: cliché - cliché. I don't know if you intend this.

Some tests:

´a - á

´e - é

´i - í­

´o - ó

´u - ú

^a - â

^e - ê

^o - ô

~a - ã

~o - õ

~n - ñ

¨i - ï

¨o - ö

¨u - ü

thorn - þ

eth - ð

,c - ç

Some tests of random html:

bold italics This Is A Big Header!

This may or may not show up between horizontal lines.

This is separated by nonbreaking spaces.

A taller text area box for entering comments. Say double the current height.

The article's domain displayed in parenthesis afterwards has an occasional leading period, e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=24263 and .brainspl.at.

The /threads page doesn't show recent comments. I replied to an old comment of mine on the Feature Requests thread to add more information. That new comment should then have appear at the top of my /threads page, possibly with the other one above it as context. It didn't appear at all, presumably because the parent wasn't displayed. This is wrong. It's a problem that there's no pageing on /threads so I can't view all my posts, but at least the recent ones should be visible.

The HTML produced has errors, e.g. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2Fthreads%3Fid%3Dralph