Peter Gervai grin@tolna.net writes:
However we *do* have problems with english wikipedia when pages contain unrepresentable literal characters, which makes the page break after editing.
Yes, the same is valid for the German WP. Pages are served as iso-8859-1 but people don't hesitate to add iso-8859-15 (the EUR symbol) or even windows-1252 ("smart quotes"). The next one, with a conforming browser, edits such an article and the next reader will see some quotations marks or other artefacts - this happens, not that often, though.
See "Budapest" article on wikitravel, where every special dash and curly quote marks became question marks. Truly ugly.
Yes, that's what I meant ;)