On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Vincent Ramos wrote:
Do you know what percentage do this trick?
The point is: why do other Wikimedia projects use utf-8 and not fr:? Are there so many utf-8 non compliant browsers?
I think it's historical. When switching over to the phase 3, ISO 8859-1 was used for the western languages, and UTF-8 only for those languages that really could not dow ithout, like Japanese. Nowadays, all newly converted languages are immediately put on UTF-8, while Polish (formerly 8859-4) and Russian (formerly 8859-5) have also been switched to UTF-8, but the 'older' ISO 8859-1 languages have all been kept on ISO 8859-1.
Andre Engels