Re: charset question (Tajikistan iw-links)

Roman Maurer <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:03:13 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.international
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Brion Vibber pravi:

>>> 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
> 
> No 8859-2 involved anywhere. The problem is that too many browsers will 
> falsely assume that ISO-8859-1 means WIndows-1252 and will insert 
> incorrect characters for S-caron and a few others. So when it's 
> converted to a UTF-8 link, the wrong output bytes are generated.

But I used the same browser for both Estonian and Slovenian version and 
there was the same entry, eg. [[et:Tadžikistan]] and [[sl:Tadžikistan]]. 
  Surely this cannot be a browser problem?
-- 
	Pozdrav,
	  Roman