On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 13:56:18 +0200, Leonard Vertighel leonard.vertighel@web.de wrote:
on the Italian Wikipedia it has recently been discussed to make a bot that is used for some maintenance work additionally convert characters like letters with accents to HTML-entities (è etc.). It has been argued that those characters can't be entered directly e.g. with an American keyboard layout...
It does seem the wrong way round to me. The edit box should be easy to read, and HTML entities are not going to help that. If people have a problem typing certain letters, it might be helpful to put a copy of those into the [[it:MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning]] page. This is already done on the Maori and German Wikipedias. See http://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning for example. This means the letters are shown at the end of every edit page and can be copied and pasted by those who can't type them on their keyboard.
Angela.