Hi!

Am 2005-03-21 schrieb mediawiki-l-request@Wikimedia.org:

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:59:52 +0100, Oliver Kuhl okuhl@netcologne.de wrote:

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I upgraded to 1.4 right now and so far it works fine. But I have problem with dates. As you can see in the attachement, though "Feb" is displayed correctly there seems to be a problem with march, which is "M?rz" in german. It is simply displayed as "M?2005" - even in html-source.

Could this be a corruption in the LanguageDe.php file (look in the 'languages' sub-dir), or (less likely given that articles are OK) in a [[MediaWiki: ...]] page (look at [[Special:Allmessages]])? I know people before (particularly on Macs) have had problems with their FTP programs downloading things in "text mode" and mangling anything UTF-8.

I think this could well result in that behaviour, because a bad byte in a multibyte encoding can easily cause the browser to treat several characters as part of the same one, which will then likely be unavailable in any installed font ("?" misrendered as Chinese does that to me all the time; irritating as hell if you're trying to look at UK shopping sites!)

I can approve this. I'm still using Latin1 in my wiki, so I thought that was the problem, but converting the LanguageDe.php to ISO-8859-1 didn't helped. I finally fixed it by replacing ä by ä.

However this seems to be a bug since there is the correct spelling in the MediaWiki namespace.

Regards, Alex