Re: Re: Reply to Tim Starling

Brion Vibber wrote:
> Timwi wrote:
>> The "special-case work" he was referring to was the conversion of the 
>> respective Wiktionaries to UTF-8 (sorry if this is too technical, 
>> since we're not on the tech list here). This cannot be done by regular 
>> contributors and must be done externally. Because of that, I'm finding 
>> it extremely disappointing that nobody has done it yet and expects a 
>> Dutch contributor to do it. Tim, or Brion, or whoever, please could 
>> you convert all Wiktionaries to UTF-8? The sooner you do it, the less 
>> there will be to convert.
> 
> 
> On the train this morning I started work on changing the remaining
> language files so we can use UTF-8 on all languages while retaining
> Latin-1 compatibility on the large Wikipedias until we finish converting
> them.
> 
> I'll try to finish it up this evening after work and see if we can get
> the wiktionaries back to their natural Unicode state.

I've checked in and installed the changes. It should be possible to 
convert the da, es, nl, and sv wiktionaries relatively quickly, while 
the wikipedias wait longer to switch into UTF-8 (on account of downtime 
needs etc).

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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