Thomas Luft wrote:
I just moved the German Artikel about Alexander Dubcek
from "Alexander
Dubcek" to "Alexander Dubcek". Since then the page title is broken. The
URL-Address is OK and says "Dubcek", but the title itself says
"DubÄ[]ek"
([] is a non displayable char). Is this an error in the database? Or is it a
browser related problem?
That letter, Latin lowercase c with caron, does not exist in the ISO
8859-1 character set which is used on the western-european-language
portions of Wikipedia. Naturally, this causes trouble when you try to
use it. ;)
I've moved the page back to the plain-old-c version.
Until the German and other western-european-language wikis are upgraded
to utf-8, alas you'll have to avoid using such characters in titles.
(This is largely dependent on how big the contingent of people who have
browsers that damage UTF-8-encoded pages when they edit them is, and
whether it's easier to find a workaround for broken browsers or to force
them to upgrade.)
See
http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html#ISO-8859-1 for a handy
chart of ok characters.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)