Hi,
Rowan Collins wrote:
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:59:52 +0100, Oliver Kuhl okuhl@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.
the language file seems to be ok. The umlauts are in UTF-8 there. I used wget on FreeBSD to download the archive.
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!)
The strange thing is, that other umlauts seems to be ok - like "meine beiträge" (my contributions), all the umlauts in the articles, menutexts, etc.
I use Firefox 1.0 with ISO-8859-1 as encoding. Even in the html-source, there is no umlaut, UTF-8, etc. Simply "23. M?2005" without any non ASCII characters.
Regards, Oliver.