On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Dan Koehl wrote:
Im sorry, the letter å is to common in our language
that it makes sence to
replace it with code å, at least for new wikipedians, it has to be
autmatically done, like any modern HTML editor would do.
Othervise were back to making editing difficult, when it should be easy??
Since ä and ö which is present in the German langauges is working OK, while
å is the unique Swedish letter (not present in any other language?) I stille
belive there is something with the script, and how it translates letters and
code. Im pretty sure that somewehere in the code theres lines which makes ä
and ö working, while å is lacking. Am I wrong?
Yes, you are wrong. The script is not doing anything, as I said before, it is
the browsers (and/or more specifically the editors on them) that are at fault.
As far as I understand it, these editors do not have å in their character set,
while they do have ä and ö. Note that a similar thing happened in Tomasz
Wegrzanowski's email. And the email surely won't go through Wikipedia's PHP
script, will it?
Another way to see that it is not caused by the PHP script, is that it happens
for some people but not all - the PHP script just sees the text that is given
as input, so if it causes problems with some users, those users must be
inputting a different text.
Andre