Guillaume Blanchard wrote:
Can you please switch French Wikipedia to UTF-8?
PS : The discussion (in French):
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%E9dia:Prise_de_d%E9cision/UTF-8
To be entirely honest, it doesn't seem like everybody is aware of the
consequences of such a switch. Unless extra mechanisms are introduced in
the software to handle this, all articles will have broken accents
everywhere. To fix all that would be a task for life, and you can't even
be sure if you've caught everything.
Personally, I think it would make sense to add something to the DB to
specify that an article is still in Latin-1, and let the software
convert it to UTF-8 whenever it is saved. However, this would take time
to program.
This would only be a temporary solution. I think that the proper way is to
use a bot to convert the faulty characters.