Stevertigo wrote:
Your central assumption - that using non-English characters on the en:wp violates "protocol"... ("master Luke!")
he's right. English wikipedia, english language. BTW, I would be very grateful if a german-speaker on this list could translate this for me:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer%3ATarquin
which is nonsense : we use umlauts, and accented spanish characters.
but they are fundamentally latin letters. we know how to read them.
You seem to think that 1. using a Chinese sig in the Talk pages interferes with people understanding the Encyclopedia...
nope, but it interferes with us known who is saying what.
and 2 that most other people cant see them - with UNICODE to read them...
I can see them on my Mac (OS X) but not Win 98 SE.