On Jan 28, 2005, at 2:40 AM, slimvirgin(a)gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone else noticed the following? Often, though
not always, when
I edit a page containing accents like umlauts and acutes, when I press
"preview" or "save," the accents come out mangled: for example, a
"u"
with an umlaut above it, comes out as a weird-looking Y, and it
happens to words I haven't edited. In addition to changing the letter,
this breaks the links to pages with accents in the title, leaving red
links. I was told this happened with Macs, and I use a Mac, but I've
only noticed it myself in the last week or so. Is there anything I can
do my end to stop it from happening? I use OS 10.2.8 and the browser
is usually Safari 1.0.3.
It's a character set mismatch, and older Safari was especially
susceptible to that problem. Usually it's an ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) page
interpreted as Unicode, or vice versa. You can use the View->Text
Encoding menu to tweak it for a single page, and you can change the
default in the preferences (Appearance section). It still may not be
100% reliable, though. Apple seems to treat Safari more as a test bed
for Web libraries than a production browser. As others suggested, one
of the Mozilla family might be a good substitute.