On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Dan Koehl wrote:
Im sorry, the letter å is to common in our language that it makes sence to replace it with code å, at least for new wikipedians, it has to be autmatically done, like any modern HTML editor would do.
Othervise were back to making editing difficult, when it should be easy??
Since ä and ö which is present in the German langauges is working OK, while å is the unique Swedish letter (not present in any other language?) I stille belive there is something with the script, and how it translates letters and code. Im pretty sure that somewehere in the code theres lines which makes ä and ö working, while å is lacking. Am I wrong?
Yes, you are wrong. The script is not doing anything, as I said before, it is the browsers (and/or more specifically the editors on them) that are at fault. As far as I understand it, these editors do not have å in their character set, while they do have ä and ö. Note that a similar thing happened in Tomasz Wegrzanowski's email. And the email surely won't go through Wikipedia's PHP script, will it?
Another way to see that it is not caused by the PHP script, is that it happens for some people but not all - the PHP script just sees the text that is given as input, so if it causes problems with some users, those users must be inputting a different text.
Andre