> If a name has diacritics, for instance [[Jose Ramos-Horta|José
> Ramos-Horta]], avoid the diacritics when naming an article. If a
> link has a diacritic, what page it links to depends on the
> character set the browser is set to. A UTF-8 browser goes to what
> looks to a Latin-1 browser as "Jos&itrema;&iques;&1/2; Ramos-
> Horta", whereas a Latin-1 browser goes to an article whose title
> has an invalid UTF-8 character.
I think our general consensus is that there should be an article
titled without diacritics, or otherwise Anglicised ("Goedel",
for example), and that this article should be a redirect to an
article with the real title, diacritics and all.
If the title of the article with foreign characters does not
appear correctly on your browser, then there's a bug in someone's
software, either the browser's or Wikipedia's (or both). I just
started tackling that issue in the new codebase; if there's a
specific combination of wiki page, OS, and browser that cause you
a problem, let me know and I'll use that as a test case for the
new code.
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