On Jan 5, 2005, at 11:29 AM, James R. Johnson wrote:
I got that in the
ang.wikipedia.org while using, but I
am using Firefox
right now, and there's not a problem. Don't get me wrong, just about
every piece of software I get I try to get Microsoft, but I have to
use Firefox for the wiki...
It sounds like you might be using some version of Internet Explorer? If
so, it might be on some version of Windows? That's more than I got out
the previous poster, at least. :)
A quick test on
ang.wikipedia.org in IE 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 shows
that some of the two-byte UTF-8 characters are incorrectly URL-decoded
by IE and are inserted as two characters composed of their individual
UTF-8 bytes interpreted as 8-bit Latin-1 characters.
This is pretty clearly an incorrect interpretation of the code by IE.
It can probably be worked around by skipping the URL encoding, but I'll
have to do more testing for scripting-attack safety and compatibility
in other browsers, so I don't have time to do it right now while I'm at
work. Would you mind filing a bug report on
bugzilla.wikipedia.org to
make sure I don't forget? Thanks.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)