[Wikipedia-l] Switching everything to UTF-8

Tue Nov 18 23:06:05 UTC 2003

On Nov 18, 2003, at 14:49, Delirium wrote:
> Actually, I think with the current setup, on en: at least, you can 
> type them literally and when you hit submit or preview it'll 
> automatically convert them to the numeric codes.  I seem to recall 
> this happening with some Greek text I pasted in (though I could be 
> mistaken).

That's a behavior of some, but not all, browsers. A property of those 
browsers that do this is they also properly submit UTF-8 data when the 
pages are in UTF-8.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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