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)