Message: 10 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:02:56 +0100 From: Vincent Ramos siva-nataraja@alussinan.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] Re: French Wikipedia and utf-8 To: wikitech-l@wikipedia.org Message-ID: oprytke6ylo7frcm@localhost Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-15

Le Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:35:42 -0800 (PST), Anthere anthere6@yahoo.com a �crit:

I understand your need as a linguist for these letters. I just hope I was the last editor to ever come to wikipedia with a browser not supporting

utf8;

because any other one will just be excluded from the project.

Yes, but non utf-8 compliant browsers are not very common, nowadays; there should be less and less.

I fear a bit that some newbie will come one day, and that you will have to fix everything behind him, and then explain to him he is just not welcome.

Hopefully,

it will never happen :-)

It is already the case with pages featuring raw <oe> digraphs or quotation marks (which are not latin-1 characters but, I do not know how, there are editors who can save pages with them): when someone with another system edits them, every <oe> and quotation mark is replaced by <?>. Some browsers do not respect raw non breakable spaces and turn them into normal spaces, etc. There is always someone to correct these pages.

At least, with utf-8 these problems should be less frequent, because <oe> and <'> could be directly encoded in a charset which possesses them.

Vincent

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true Vincent

But in this case, it will not be just a few caracters on a few pages, it will be *all* accentuated caracters, �, �, �, �, �, �, � and so on, on *all* pages. That makes quite a difference. The user would be listed problematic whithin less than 20 articles.

And Safari does not work on OS 9 :-(

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