[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki 1.4: German dates in recent changes and history defect

[Rowan Collins]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:59:52 +0100, Oliver Kuhl <okuhl at netcologne.de> wrote:

> I upgraded to 1.4 right now and so far it works fine. But I have problem
> with dates. As you can see in the attachement, though "Feb" is displayed
> correctly there seems to be a problem with march, which is "März" in
> german. It is simply displayed as "M?2005" - even in html-source.

Could this be a corruption in the LanguageDe.php file (look in the
'languages' sub-dir), or (less likely given that articles are OK) in a
[[MediaWiki: ...]] page (look at [[Special:Allmessages]])? I know
people before (particularly on Macs) have had problems with their FTP
programs downloading things in "text mode" and mangling anything
UTF-8.

I think this could well result in that behaviour, because a bad byte
in a multibyte encoding can easily cause the browser to treat several
characters as part of the same one, which will then likely be
unavailable in any installed font ("£" misrendered as Chinese does
that to me all the time; irritating as hell if you're trying to look
at UK shopping sites!)

-- 
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]