Ok, well the problem is not that great, I have corrected two files in two months, which is nothing. If theres nothing to do, its not the end of the world.
Strange though, that the browser accept ä and ö but not å.
I suppose its because a large number of european users are German, while theres too less of the old Swedes, thats why å was not implemented.
Nothing to do, and its not a big problem anyhow. Over and Out.- Dan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andre Engels" engels@uni-koblenz.de To: wikitech-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Swedish umlaut å, ä, and ö.
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
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