[Mediawiki-l] Special Characters from database.

Adam Meyer meyer7 at mindspring.com
Tue Jul 24 13:19:20 UTC 2007


I have an external program for my wiki that grabs mwt.old_text and  
puts it in a text box. Any time there are special characters (E.G. ®  
© º (registered, copyright, degrees)) a capital A with an accent mark  
shows up before it. Im sure that this is just the way that it is  
store in the database, or an unicode issue, but how does mediawiki  
pull it with out this?

You can see the problem here: (may be broken in IE)
http://www.risdpedia.net/interface/easy_edit/index.php?title=Rust- 
Oleum_Specialty_High_Heat

Thanks,
-Adam


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