Hi folks,
In our ongoing research here at UMN, we've discovered some reverts that
introduce apparent character set problems; what seems to happen is that
some Unicode characters are replaced by a character I don't recognize
followed by a hexadecimal number. For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dog&diff=58851026&oldid=5…
What I see is that a sequence of five characters that I don't have
glyphs for, which show up as five boxes with the numbers "010337 01033F
01033D 010333 010343" in them, is replaced with the sequence
"?df37?df3f?df3d?df33?df43", where ? is not the question mark but a
black diamond with a white question mark in it (a zero byte?).
Do any of you have pointers on information as to what is going on?
We are trying to devise a workaround that would result in revisions like
this comparing identical.
Many thanks,
Reid