Peter Gervai wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:28:32AM -0500, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Peter Gervai wrote:
Could you point us to the page and revision of the problem?
couple examples:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=What_to_do_with_www.wikipedia.o... http://meta.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&diff=20132&ol...
This happens on meta's Main Page often. Ask Anthere and Erik for other examples.
I see. First is not a good example, Opera 5 is _ancient_, you can't expect that anyone would support it, as upgrading is clearly painless.
Second example is indeed valid, but it isn't a problem for you: if the page does not contain non-8859-1 characters, nothing gets garbled. If it does contain others then, well, you *need* utf-8 on that page anyway. (Embed codes are a little bit slow to type, don't you agree? If not, write your reply manually by using embeds. :))
I don't really see the problem with typing embed codes manually on, for example, the English Wikipedia. I presume the vast majority of the text will be in English (that is the language, after all), with only a very few words and phrases not in English (Greek or Chinese or etc. versions of foreign place names). It shouldn't be *too* much of a hassle to type those few phrases with embed codes.
Actually, I think with the current setup, on en: at least, you can type them literally and when you hit submit or preview it'll automatically convert them to the numeric codes. I seem to recall this happening with some Greek text I pasted in (though I could be mistaken).
-Mark