tarquin wrote:
We still seem to be having to write œ in article text and links. Is the letter œ (oe digraph) working properly on fr: yet? If not, will it work at some time in the future?
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The fr Wikipedia appears to be using the iso-8859-1 character set currently. This character set does not include the oelig character.
The Windows-1252 character set (and, of course, UTF-8 also) contains the character, and it is largely compatible with ISO-8859-1. However, I bet someone is going to tell you that there exist hardly-used broken ancient browsers that can't handle it and this is why they continue to use ISO-8859-1.
The problem here is that these "hardly-used broken ancient browsers" can corrupt whole pages (by removing all the oeligs, for example). Therefore, whenever someone contributes with such a browser, you will either have to fix all the oeligs (too much work) or forego their contribution (a pity).
A further problem is that the system does not know that Œ is the upper case of &oelig. For example, [[œil (typographie)]] shows as an empty link, even though the page [[Œil (typographie)]] exists. Could this second problem be fixed at least?
This would be trivial with UTF-8, but since that can't be used ...
Greetings, Timwi