Vincent Ramos wrote:
Le Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:33:19 +0100, Luc Van Oostenryck luc.vanoostenryck@easynet.be a écrit:
Please don't! This is totally unneeded for the french charset and will only causing problems with browser which don't support UTF-8.
Do you know what percentage do this trick? The point is: why do other Wikimedia projects use utf-8and not fr:? Are there so many utf-8 non compliant browsers?
Vincent
I don't know how much browser are non-UTF-8 compliant, but I'm sure there will problems. My point of view is more like the following: why should we need UTF-8 on fr when 99.9999% of text are fairly happy with ISO8859-1 (the charset that most european use and french in particular) and named or numeric HTML entities are OK for the rest.
Note, Vincent, that I understand your needs for special characters.
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