On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:42:23PM +0300, Wikipedia@inbox.lv wrote:

Hi! Can anyone tell me, please, what to do with characters (Baltic fonts) which do not appear correctly in lv.wikipedia.com? I can see, Czechs have solved similar problem. Typing ā and ņ is quite silly, doesn't it? Especially because every third character in Latvian looks like this.:) Please, help me! I am starting Latvian Wikipedia, and it cannot develop until the problem is solved.

Reinis Lazda

It needs to have encoding switched to Unicode. Brion ... ? ;)

"Wikipedia@inbox.lv" wikipedia@inbox.lv writes:

Hi! Can anyone tell me, please, what to do with characters (Baltic fonts) which do not appear correctly in lv.wikipedia.com? I can see, Czechs have solved similar problem. Typing ā and ņ is quite silly, doesn't it? Especially because every third character in Latvian looks like this.:) Please, help me! I am starting Latvian Wikipedia, and it cannot develop until the problem is solved.

Some German texts are also affected (e.g., articles on Polonian, Czech, Hungarian, etc. cities or persons).

I'm editing outside of the browser using Emacs from CVS trunk in an UTF-8 environment; I feed Emacs via cut-and-paste. These functions seem to du the trick for me:

(defun to-wiki () (interactive) (let ((buf (buffer-name))) (with-temp-buffer (let ((tbuf (buffer-name))) (save-excursion (set-buffer buf) (shell-command-on-region (point-min) (point-max) "recode -d ..h2,h2.." tbuf)) (kill-ring-save (point-min) (point-max))))))

(defun from-wiki () (interactive) (save-excursion (shell-command-on-region (point-min) (point-max) "recode -d ..html|recode html.." nil t)))