Wikimedia Foundation (board(a)wikimedia.org) [050707 05:31]:
Forwarding from OTRS in the hope someone on this list
has more of an idea
about these problems than the board do.
---- Forwarded message from Daniël----
> Hello Angela, Jimbo & Florence,
> With the upgrade to MediaWiki 1.5 the Dutch Wikipedia was converted to
> UTF-8. This has caused that people using Mac OS 9 are now unable to edit
> the Wiki, because:
> * Netscape 4.5 is unsupported
> * Internet Explorer 5 doesn't support Unicode and vandalises pages
> Opera 6 seems to support Unicode, is reported to be extremely unstable
> on
> Mac OS9.
> I'm not a MacOS user, so perhaps I have forget a browser that runs on
> OS9,
> but this currently looks like an unsolvable problem.
> Do you have any experience with this?
There's a version of Mozilla 1.3 for MacOS 9, and someone did a contrib
version of Mozilla 1.3 with a pile of Mozilla 1.4 stuff backported (I
forget who). It's fat and slow (I used it on a Performa 5200, aka iTurd -
famous as "the worst Macintosh ever made"), but it's stable and works just
fine.
- d.