Re: charset question (Tajikistan iw-links)

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:17:09PM +0100, Roman Maurer wrote:
> I encountered rather unusual situation when I tried to add interwiki sl: 
> link to en:Tajikistan <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistan>.
> 
> I noticed that Estonian and Slovenian use the same word (Tadžikistan) so 
> I tried to copy the exact [[et:Tadžikistan]] to [[sl:Tadžikistan]].  But 
> to my surprise this does not work in sl:, because it wants to open 
> http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tad%C2%9Eikistan while the correct link is 
> http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tad%C5%BEikistan.  The Estonian version has 
> no such problems: http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tad%C5%BEikistan
> 
> Could someone, please, explain how this is possible?

Maybe the underlying software isn't converting sl: according to the right
character set (ISO 8859-2)? You can probably avoid it by explicitly
specifying &#382; for z+caron.

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