Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problems with the Germans Umlaute: ä, ö, ü

Jamie Bliss astronouth7303 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 14 21:13:50 UTC 2004


I think this caused by the character being sent to the browser raw and
not being changed into the appropriate entity. I don't know how to fix
this, though. (In mine, it was displayed as either a question mark and
a box or 2 question marks.)


On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 15:14:07 +0100, Andrea Arena <andrea at arena.cd> wrote:
> Dear friends
> 
> On working with mediawiki 1.3.7 i encountered the following problem: the
> german Umlaute ä,ö,ü, are not displaied. See:
> 
> http://www.italien.ch/wiki/index.php/Hauptseite
> 
> Under the register navigation, for example, "letzte nderungen" should be
> "letzte Änderungen" or "Zuflliger Artikel" should correctly be "Zufälliger
> Artikel". You can see the effect on the buttom line to, "ber Italien.ch"
> should be "über Italien.ch".
> 
> In the LocalSettings.php i did the following definitions:
> 
> $wgLanguageCode = "de";
> $wgUseLatin1 = false;
> 
> The PhpMyAdmin version is 2.5.6
> And the MySQL version is 4.0.20
> 
> In the Phpmyadmin i have defined the language "German de-iso-8859-1"
> 
> Could you give me any solving proposals of my problem?
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Yours faithfully
> 
> Andrea
> 
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