[Wikipedia-l] Switching everything to UTF-8

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 01:24:00AM +0100, Erik Moeller wrote:
> Tomasz-
> > * broken browsers - they should be upgraded, if someone has browser so old
> > 			that it doesn't grok UTF-8, it's not going to grok CSS,
> > 			PNGs, and other things we're using either.
> > 			Unless we want to remove all CSS and PNGs, there's
> > 			no point in not using UTF-8.
> 
> Is this true? All I know is that we had a *lot* of problems with broken  
> special chars on the Meta-Wiki during the logo contest. I have no idea  
> which browser broke them, but it seems to be a not totally uncommon one,  
> perhaps in the 5% range. Given that a single edit by such a person will  
> break an entire page, it might not be so wise to switch (but perhaps I'm  
> missing something -- is Meta running UTF-8?).

It's nothing like 5% - it's at least one order of magnitude smaller number.
On Polish Wikipedia there weren't any serious problems with UTF-8-incompatible browsers.