Forwarding from OTRS in the hope someone on this list has more of an idea about these problems than the board do.
Angela
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Hello Angela, Jimbo & Florence,
With the upgrade to MediaWiki 1.5 the Dutch Wikipedia was converted to UTF-8. This has caused that people using Mac OS 9 are now unable to edit the Wiki, because:
- Netscape 4.5 is unsupported
- Internet Explorer 5 doesn't support Unicode and vandalises pages
Opera 6 seems to support Unicode, is reported to be extremely unstable on Mac OS9.
I'm not a MacOS user, so perhaps I have forget a browser that runs on OS9, but this currently looks like an unsolvable problem.
Do you have any experience with this?
TicketID=36280
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 21:31, Wikimedia Foundation wrote:
Forwarding from OTRS in the hope someone on this list has more of an idea about these problems than the board do.
Angela
Netscape 7.0 is probably the most modern browser for OS 9 and should handle Unicode gracefully. http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/download/archive70x.jsp
HTH
Ian Barwick barwick@gmx.net
---- Forwarded message from Daniël----
Hello Angela, Jimbo & Florence,
With the upgrade to MediaWiki 1.5 the Dutch Wikipedia was converted to UTF-8. This has caused that people using Mac OS 9 are now unable to edit the Wiki, because:
- Netscape 4.5 is unsupported
- Internet Explorer 5 doesn't support Unicode and vandalises pages
Opera 6 seems to support Unicode, is reported to be extremely unstable on Mac OS9.
I'm not a MacOS user, so perhaps I have forget a browser that runs on OS9, but this currently looks like an unsolvable problem.
Do you have any experience with this?
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Wikimedia Foundation (board@wikimedia.org) [050707 05:31]:
Forwarding from OTRS in the hope someone on this list has more of an idea about these problems than the board do.
---- Forwarded message from Daniël----
Hello Angela, Jimbo & Florence, With the upgrade to MediaWiki 1.5 the Dutch Wikipedia was converted to UTF-8. This has caused that people using Mac OS 9 are now unable to edit the Wiki, because:
- Netscape 4.5 is unsupported
- Internet Explorer 5 doesn't support Unicode and vandalises pages
Opera 6 seems to support Unicode, is reported to be extremely unstable on Mac OS9. I'm not a MacOS user, so perhaps I have forget a browser that runs on OS9, but this currently looks like an unsolvable problem. Do you have any experience with this?
There's a version of Mozilla 1.3 for MacOS 9, and someone did a contrib version of Mozilla 1.3 with a pile of Mozilla 1.4 stuff backported (I forget who). It's fat and slow (I used it on a Performa 5200, aka iTurd - famous as "the worst Macintosh ever made"), but it's stable and works just fine.
- d.
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