Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
You can (and we often do, on [[en:]]) using HTML entities, such as Č (for "C" with a hacek, TeX's "\v C"). What UTF-8 encoding does is to allow:
- Direct entry of the UTF-8 character into the edit box;
- UTF-8 characters in titles.
Unless it has obvious symbolic name AND is used just once or twice it is not any solution.
They should all have symbolic names *eventually*. Let's write a letter to the W3C ^_^!
Do you really expect people to write articles like http://wiktionary.org/wiki/Polish_language or http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82ownictwo_informatyczne_w_j%C4%99zyku_jap... with &#numbers; ?
No, I don't think that it would work very well at all! Which must be why these wikis are already on UTF8 -- I was talking about switching [[en:]], [[fr:]], and the like. (I wouldn't even presume to change "é" to "é" on [[fr:]], but I'd definitely change "C(" to "Č" on [[en:]].)
-- Toby