On Nov 18, 2003, at 20:31, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Anyway, adding a notice and/or doing some extra conversion for those 2% shouldn't be a huge server burden.
Would that be only for posting, or will the 2% also be blocked from reading the site? 2% of Wikipedia's readers is a lot.
Nobody's going to be blocked.
"NOTICE" and "CONVERSION" don't sound like blocking to me, and I hope they don't to anyone else.
You'll notice we *don't* block browsers that are known to damage long articles during editing; we warn about the problem and when things do go awry anyway people can fix it up.
Can we all drop the paranoia? We're not making a switch of the existing Latin-1 phase3 wikis to UTF-8 until compatibility code is in place. That's what we decided over a year ago when the issue was first raised, no?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)