On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:22:43AM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
On ven, 2003-01-10 at 08:54, Anthere wrote:
Meanwhile, please don't switch the fr.wiki to UTF 8 before we all know what it will imply in terms of usability.
My position continues to be that we should not switch the big Latin-1 wikis to UTF-8 until we have automatic conversion to handle common broken browsers.
All common browsers support UTF-8, so what do you mean by "common broken browsers" ?
Autodetection won't work (all popular browsers, and most of less popular ones, support UTF-8, and we don't want to break any of them, list of broken browsers doesn't exist). There should be a link "my browser is completely broken" which would set a cookie and software, seeing that cookie, would convert page to "safer" version.
But what would that "safer" version be ? * ISO-8859-1 + &codes; * ISO-8859-1 + `?' marks * ISO-8859-1 + rendered PNGs (do these browsers support PNG ?) ?
I don't think we should support editing that way.