[Wikipedia-l] en.wikipedia.org is in Latin 1 (ISO-8859-1) ??

Steven R.Loomis srl at monkey.sbay.org
Sat Apr 23 16:53:54 UTC 2005


I thought I was seeing things, but sure enough:
lynx http://en.wikipedia.org
  'Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'

Is there a plan to migrate all wikis to utf-8? at the very least it 
makes writing interwiki links a major pain. For now I seem to be able 
to just force my browser (Safari) to utf-8 long enough to type the 
interwiki links.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Special_characters#Unicode

If this is documented/discussed/argued somewhere else, let me know.   
I'm asking here from a policy point of view.    Is there a better 
solution?

Thanks,
[[w:mt:User:Srl]]

And a big thank you to all who work on this project.  It's amazing how 
well the tools work from a community point of view.  I think 
mt.wikipedia.org is set to have a major and positive impact on the 
Maltese language online, possibly offline as well.

Grazzi Ħafna lilkom minn qalbi.




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