[WikiEN-l] Speaking of Apple Mac and Wikipedia

Christiaan Briggs christiaan at last-straw.net
Fri Jan 28 08:53:39 UTC 2005


I don't have this problem with Safari 1.2 (v25) under OS 10.3.8 Sarah, 
so one option might be to upgrade to 10.3.

The other option might be to use the rather nice Firefox web browser:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Christiaan

On 28 Jan 2005, at 7:40 am, <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone else noticed the following? Often, though not always, when 
> I edit a page containing accents like umlauts and acutes, when I press 
> "preview" or "save," the accents come out mangled: for example, a "u" 
> with an umlaut above it, comes out as a weird-looking Y, and it 
> happens to words I haven't edited. In addition to changing the letter, 
> this breaks the links to pages with accents in the title, leaving red 
> links. I was told this happened with Macs, and I use a Mac, but I've 
> only noticed it myself in the last week or so. Is there anything I can 
> do my end to stop it from happening? I use OS 10.2.8 and the browser 
> is usually Safari 1.0.3.
>
> Sarah




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