Re: Switching everything to UTF-8
[email protected] (Erik Moeller) 18 Nov 2003 01:24:00 +0100
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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