On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:45:58 -0800, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
On Nov 13, 2004, at 6:14 AM, Andrea Arena wrote:
german Umlaute ä,ö,ü, are not displaied. See:
Your LanguageDe.php seems to be badly corrupted. Have you edited any of the files?
Specifically, non-latin1 characters seem to have been converted at some stage into what seem to be "FFFD replacement characters" (Mozilla on Linux displays missing glyphs as a square of hex digits; wherever umlauted letters should be, it's showing me | F F | | F F | | F D | | F D | ) This is (according to Brion at http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/821) a character used by software as a placeholder for unrecognised characters. Probably either in downloading or editing the LanguageDe file, some piece of software has mangled it, and therefore the UI messages in it.
You could either: a) re-download the file, and run maintenance/rebuildMessages.php [I think that's the one] to build the correct version back into your database; or b) go through all the messages in your MediaWiki: namespace, replacing the broken characters with what they should be ([[Spezial:Allmessages]] should aid you in this task). I was able to enter letters with umlauts in a normal page fine: I took the liberty of trying at http://www.italien.ch/wiki/index.php/Italien.ch:Sandbox