[Wikipedia-l] Switching everything to UTF-8

[Peter Gervai]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:29:25PM -0500, Daniel Mayer wrote:
> Erik wrote:
> >Is this true? All I know is that we had a *lot* of problems 
> >with broken special chars on the Meta-Wiki during the logo 
[...]
> 
> IIRC meta is. And that fact has created some of the problems you mention. I 

Could you point us to the page and revision of the problem? I'm curious what
kind of problem it might have been, as many of the Wikipedias are in UTF-8
from the start, and we had no problem whatsoever. 

However we *do* have problems with english wikipedia when pages contain
unrepresentable literal characters, which makes the page break after
editing. See "Budapest" article on wikitravel, where every special dash and
curly quote marks became question marks. Truly ugly.

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