On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:28:53PM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
What would you prefer? That we tell Anthere to take a hike and buy a new computer? That I petition my uni to upgrade hundreds of machines in their labs? That we ignore similar conditions across the world where people have old machines or machines they cannot control and tell them, hey, fuck off, Wikipedia's not for you you whiny bitch?
Your examples are legitimate. How would you feel if there was a user option to edit in "broken UTF-8 mode"? Then when you edited a page, you could insert some markup to put in non-ASCII characters. I don't know what the best way to do this would be; I am guessing something like \xAB\xCD where \x means "an 8 bit value in hexadecimal representation follows". If you have any other ideas, let me know.
Jonathan