Unicoding

All right — for now, I give up on the whole Objective-C / PHP character encoding stuff. As it stands, if you enter a name with funky characters in it, the game will warn you:

so you can either save your name with its proper diacritics to the local score list or Anglicize it for the global one.

I'm pretty close to done with this version, I think; probably submit it to the App Store in a few days, which means, of course, that you'll see it there sometime around November. I think I'm joking.

Scorelicious

Right. Got the score hashing stuff together a few days ago, and now have it integrated into the game. You get "game over", enter your name, and it submits the score to the server, which checks it out and adds it to the database. The main problem at the moment is that it doesn't know what to do with Unicode characters - a name like "François" just gets submitted as "(null)", which is hardly identifying. I'll have to find some way of sanitizing the name, or warning if it can't be uploaded. There's probably some NSString function with a heinously long name that does something like what I'm after.