[Wikipedia-l] Switching everything to UTF-8

[Anthere]

Tomasz-
> * broken browsers - they should be upgraded, if
someone has browser 
so old
> 			that it doesn't grok UTF-8, it's not going to
grok CSS,
> 			PNGs, and other things we're using either.
> 			Unless we want to remove all CSS and PNGs,
there's
> 			no point in not using UTF-8.

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
contest. I have no idea  
which browser broke them, but it seems to be a not
totally uncommon 
one,  perhaps in the 5% range. Given that a single
edit by such a person will  
break an entire page, it might not be so wise to
switch (but perhaps 
I'm  missing something -- is Meta running UTF-8?).

Regards,

Erik

I confirm it is in utf 8
I broke many pages for months there, and refrained
from editing many others, and wrote all french pages
without any accents.

I also noticed during the logo contest, that some
people were messing pages as well, so obviously some
people are still using them (recommand Netscape 7 for
Mac OS 9).

I really fear we will have to check very carefully any
newbie contribution, and perhaps tell them to go away.
I hope we consider this carefully, before switching
everything. I understand there would be some benefits.
But perhaps some drawbacks as well. Any relevant
number (of non utf supporting browser) might be
interesting. Imho. 


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