Editing Encyclopedia:Internationalization bug reports

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'''Slovak(Slovakia) language is actually Slovenian(Slovenia)'''

'''Chinese (unicode?) article title created, breaks interface''' [[user:The Anome|The Anome]], Thursday, April 4, 2002

Some one has managed to create
f
(link removed)

with all sorts of nasty consequences (try to edit it, for example).

:Removed it manually. This (the link problems) should already be fixed in CVS. [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Thursday, April 4, 2002

This may be the same issue as above. Go to [[Poincaré conjecture]], then click on "edit this link". On IE 6, I get a page "PoincarÃ© conjecture". In order to actually edit the article, or access its history, you'll have to manually enter something like 
: http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Poincar%E9_conjecture&action=edit
I suppose the links produced by the script should always use these % escapes for non-ascii characters.
[[user:AxelBoldt|AxelBoldt]], Tuesday, April 9, 2002
:They have done for several days in CVS. Jimbo, can we see an upgrade soon, please? [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]], Tuesday, April 9, 2002
::The problem has largely been fixed in the latest update but still persists in "Redirected from" contexts. Try going to [[Poincaré conjecture]] (which currently redirects to [[Poincare conjecture]]) and trying to see where you were redirected from. -- [[user:Toby Bartels|Toby Bartels]], Sunday, May 19, 2002

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'''Non-ascii in titles'''

* (2002/1/21) -- ISO-8859-2 characters cannot be in title of article - number of international wikipedias need this ...
** I'll wait for the English script and the bomis CVS to go online, there are some people who know the character encoding things better than me... --[[user:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]]

'''Japanese Wikipedia marked as ISO 8859-1''' 2001-12-31

http://ja.wikipedia.com is illegible with IE 5.0 (Mac) because its HTTP (MIME) header
includes the line 

Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

The charset should be changed to something appropriate (Shift_JIS or UTF8), or
removed and replaced by the equivalent META tag.

:The Japanese wikipedia now puts out "x-sjis" in its headers, Shift-JIS is allowed in page titles, and it is more or less usable. However, some characters are being mysteriously screwed up (katakana RU for instance); please test and report if you can figure out exactly what's going on. 2002-03-01 [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]]

::Found it, the darn Perl CGI module was at fault with bad defaults for escaping characters. Sent fix to Jimbo. 2002-03-01 [[user:Brion VIBBER|Brion VIBBER]]

On a similar note, visitors to http://www.wikipedia.com should be automatically
redirected to the Wikipedia written in the language of their choice, as expressed in
their browser language preferences. -- poslfit
:Then how would Dutch/English bilinguals switch to the English version? en.wikipedia.com doesn't seem to have any content. --[[User:Damian Yerrick]]

The same problem occurs in Netscape 4.77.  However, IE5 works fine.
This is very similar and may be related to the problem reported at the bottom of this page.
See [[talk:Ranma 1]] for details.

wrong Slovak webside
I'm sorry but your hyperlink has send me to slovenia not slovakia!

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==Technical: IPA==

''Moved from [[Wikipedia:Village Pump]]''

Why is it that on IE 5, while [http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm this web site] can display every single IPA letters and diacritics correctly, none of the Wikipedias can display any, except the standard 26 English letters? Something looks wrong. We should better WP. --[[User:Menchi|Menchi]] 07:13 May 7, 2003 (UTC)

:It's the difference between ''&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;'' and ''&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"&gt;'', I suspect.
:--[[User:Paul A|Paul A]] 08:10 May 7, 2003 (UTC)

::That reminds me, are there plans afoot for following [[LiveJournal]] and using UTF-8?  (LJ did so, and arranged for server-side on-the-fly translation of "legacy" entries to UTF-8 - and LJ is a good example because that's mostly user-contributed content too.  Most users were unware of the change to UTF-8, but those that maintained journals in non-english charsets were overjoyed.)  [[User:Tenbaset|Tenbaset]] 23:21 May 7, 2003 (UTC)

:::We already run in UTF-8 on all phase 3 wikis except for English, Danish, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish. The reason the western European languages haven't been moved over yet is that when you edit a page on a wiki, your browser has a chance to screw up not just your contributions but the ''entire'' contents of the page. It happens fairly regularly on meta and wiktionary that someone (usually our dear [[User:Anthere|Anthere]] :) destroys every non-ASCII character in a page by making an edit with a browser that has broken UTF-8 support, and someone else has to go in and fix them. Until we either banish all such browsers ;) or make tweaks to make safe round-trip edits in those browsers without inconveniencing the rest of us with too much armor, the western european languages will stay in Latin-1.

:::Note that you can use all the Unicode characters you want, including IPA, with &amp;#12345; etc. See [[Wikipedia:Special characters]]. --[[User:Brion VIBBER|Brion]] 00:15 May 8, 2003 (UTC)

Suggestion: keep using [[SAMPA]] in markup, but provide an option to have this "translated" into IPA characters if the user chooses. -- [[User:Tarquin|Tarquin]] 08:23 May 7, 2003 (UTC)