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Nino Novak wrote:
in spanish the term "discussion" is translated "discusión" (with ó).
Now how to set up a custom namespace called "ES_Discusión" in an international (utf-8) wiki? If following the description from Help:Custom namespaces (from meta) and coding it as html "ó" it is displayed as is - and if coding it in iso-8859, it is displayed with the small black questionmark rhomb - which is normal behavior in utf-8.
First, use the real ó character, not ó
Second, save the file as UTF-8.
Third, make sure there isn't a hidden "BOM" character at the start of the file after you save it -- Windows Notepad will insert this when you save a file as Unicode, but it will mess up some things (broken RSS feeds, broken caching, possibly visible error messages). I recommend using a programming editor such as jEdit which allows saving as UTF-8 without the BOM character.
(Sorry for the BOM problems, but this is an issue with how PHP handles files.)
The meta instruction says "Do not save LocalSettings.php as Unicode, because PHP cannot handle it" - so is there any possibility to get things done?
Some editors such as Notepad mark simply "Unicode" for UTF-16, a form of Unicode text which is basically wildly incompatible with everything. ;) Most Internet-friendly Unicode usage is done in the UTF-8 encoding.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)