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?
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
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 Πis 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