[Mediawiki-l] Re: Re: accents not appearing correctly

[Brion Vibber]

Hugh Prior wrote:
> "Brion Vibber" <brion at pobox.com> wrote:
>> Your text editor will have some sort of encoding setting. Use it.
> 
> Thanks for trying Brion.
> 
> However, in view of the actual problem though, this which you suggest is, 
> sorry to say, complete nonsense.

That's only, sorry to say, because you have no idea what you're talking about.

>  $pageText = "Fédération";
> 
> It is not complex text.
>
>  It is not as if I am trying to input Chinese via a
> program into a wiki.

Actually, it's exactly like that. Your string contains two non-ASCII characters,
which will need to be properly encoded or you'll get some data corruption.
Specifically, they must be UTF-8 encoded.

There's *no* qualitative difference between "é" and something like "本"; both
are non-ASCII characters and therefore must be properly encoded in the UTF-8
source file.

The symptoms you described are *exactly* the symptoms of a miscoded 8-bit ISO
8859-1 (or Windows "ANSI" or whatever they call it) character in what should be
a UTF-8 text stream.

> If you think that the code, being PHP, still has to be run by a browser,

I'm talking about the text editor you used to save the PHP source file
containing literal strings. There's no "browser" involved in your problem.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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