My locale is indeed set to Chinese... because most of my users will be Chinese. Changing the configuration in Firefox didn't work.
Great find BTW :-)
... but I guess my little problem is there to stay, since I can't change my users' locale. Wish they fixed that in Firefox, it's almost 10% of my visits.
To top it off, it doesn't work with locales set to latin-1 either.
Thanks a lot, Brion. I should probably mail somebody at Mozilla :D I'm stubborn.
On 2/8/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
muyuubyou wrote:
Well, about my little issue with Firefox: I just type in the URL bar,
and no
cookie. Following links works (for instance, link to pages created with Opera, work also under Firefox).
For instance:
In GB 18030, that's: d6 d0 ce c4
I press enter, then the URL bar turns to: http://someIPhere/wiki/index.php/%C3%96%C3%90%C3%8E%C3%84
, which is page "ÖÐÎÄ"
In ISO 8859-1, that's: d6 d0 ce c4
By any chance is your desktop set to a Chinese locale? It sounds like Firefox is taking the non-ASCII chars in the URL you type and encoding them as GB 18030. MediaWiki sees these unexpected non-UTF-8 characters and tries to convert them from a fallback, which is the default of ISO 8859-1 or Windows-1252.
Try setting the network.standard-url.encode-utf8 hidden preference in Firefox to true, see if that fixes it. (Who knows why they haven't turned this on yet, it's been standard on even MSIE for years...)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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