Peter Gervai wrote:
Could you point us to the page and revision of the problem?
couple examples:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=What_to_do_with_www.wikipedia.o... http://meta.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&diff=20132&ol...
This happens on meta's Main Page often. Ask Anthere and Erik for other examples.
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.
Probably because their browsers work nicely in UTF-8 because they have to. If they didn't they would be useless for any language where UTF-8 is required. In places where UTF-8 isn't required, browsers that can't support it tend to slip by without being fixed or upgraded. If it ain't broke...
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.
I don't understand. Is Wikitravel in UTF-8?
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)